Turricaspia lyrata

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 : 86

Turricaspia lyrata (Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915)

*1915 Micromelania (Turricaspia) spica var. lyrata Dybowski & Grochmalicki: 117, pl. 2, fig. 18.

2006 Pyrgula lirata [sic] (B. Dybowski & J. Grochmalicki, 1915). - Kantor and Sysoev: 101, pl. 46, fig. E.

2016 Pyrgula lirata [sic] (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915). - Vinarski and Kantor: 240.

2018 Turricaspia lyrata (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915). - Neubauer et al.: 77-79, fig. 12 A–K [and synonyms therein].

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Caspian Sea (no details).

Distribution. Endemic to the Caspian Sea (after Logvinenko and Starobogatov 1969); it occurs in the western part of the middle and southern Caspian Sea basins, but these authors used a slightly different concept of the species. This species was mentioned from depths between 200 and 300 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan ( Mirzoev and Alekperov 2017, who reported the species as Turricaspia lirata ).

Taxonomic notes. See Neubauer et al. (2018) for a detailed discussion of the species and its synonyms.

Conservation status. Not assessed.