Abeskunus brusinianus

Wesselingh, Frank, Poorten, Jan Johan ter, Kijashko, Pavel, Albrecht, Christian, Anistratenko, Olga Yu, Frolov, Pavel, Gándara, Alberto Martinez, Gittenberger, Arjan, Gogaladze, Aleksandre, Mikhail Karpinsky, Popa, Luis, Sands, Arthur F, Vandendorpe, Justine & Wilke, Thomas, 2019, Mollusc species from the Pontocaspian region - an expert opinion list, ZooKeys 827, pp. 31-124 : 94-95

Abeskunus brusinianus (Clessin & Dybowski in Dybowski, 1887)

*1887 Zagrabica Brusiniana Clessin & Dybowski in Dybowski: 52-53.

1888 Zagrabica Brusiniana n. sp. - Dybowski: 79, pl. 2, fig. 7.

2006 Pseudamnicola brusiniana (Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888). - Kantor and Sysoev: 114, pl. 51, fig. J.

2016 Pseudamnicola brusiniana (Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888). - Vinarski and Kantor: 222.

2018 Abeskunus brusinianus (Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1887). - Neubauer et al.: 87-88, fig. 16 A–I.

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Caspian Sea (no details).

Distribution. Middle and southern Caspian Sea ( Logvinenko and Starobogatov 1969, Parr et al. 2007). Mirzoev and Alekperov (2017) mention Pseudamnicola brusinianus from depths between 200 and 400 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan but we are not entirely certain whether these records might include other Abeskunus species as well.

Taxonomic notes. For a detailed description and discussion, see Neubauer et al. (2018).

Conservation status. Least Concern ( Vinarski 2011c).