Turricaspia spasskii

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 : 92

Turricaspia spasskii (Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1969)

*1969 Pyrgula (Turricaspia) spasskii Logvinenko & Starobogatov: 361, fig. 360(7).

2016 Turricaspia spasskii (Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1968). - Vinarski and Kantor: 250.

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Western part of the middle Caspian Sea.

Distribution. Middle and southern Caspian Sea. This species was mentioned from depths between 200 and 300 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan ( Mirzoev and Alekperov 2017).

Taxonomic notes. The fast growing whorls terminating in a large body whorl with expanded aperture are characteristic for this species and facilitate discrimination from other Turricaspia species.

Conservation status. Data Deficient ( Vinarski 2011u).