Laevicaspia caspia

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 : 74-75

Laevicaspia caspia (Eichwald, 1838)

*1838 Rissoa caspia Eichwald: 154-155.

non 1888 Micr. [omelania] caspia Eichw. sp. - Dybowski: 78, pl. 1, fig. 1.

? 1896 B. [uliminus] (Napaeus?) goebeli Westerlund: 188.

1915 Micromelania (?) curta Nalivkin: 21-22, 31, pl. 6, figs 1, 2 [pars, non figs 3, 4, 7, 9-14].

1915 [ Micromelania (?) curta ] var. plano-convexa Nalivkin: 22, 31, pl. 6, figs 15-18.

non 1915 Micromelania caspia Eichw. - Nalivkin: 22, 31, pl. 6, figs 5, 6 [pars, non fig. 8].

non 1917 Micromelania ( Turricaspia , Laevicaspia ) caspia Eichw. - Dybowski and Grochmalicki: 5-8, 36-38, pl. 1, figs 1-3.

non 1969 Pyrgula caspia (Eichw.). - Logvinenko and Starobogatov: 369-370, fig. 364(1).

2006 Turricaspia caspia (Eichwald, 1838). - Kantor and Sysoev: 106, pl. 49, fig. M.

2016 Turricaspia caspia (Eichwald, 1838). - Vinarski and Kantor: 246.

2018 Laevicaspia caspia (Eichwald, 1838). - Neubauer et al.: 63-66, fig. 8 A–K [and synonyms therein].

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. In fossil limestone of Dagestan, Russia.

Distribution. Endemic to the Caspian Sea. This species was mentioned from depths between 200 and 500 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan ( Mirzoev and Alekperov 2017, who reported the species as Turricaspia caspia and T. curta ).

Taxonomic notes. For a detailed discussion about the identity of this species, its synonyms and former misidentifications, see Neubauer et al. (2018).

Conservation status. IUCN indicates "Least Concern" ( Vinarski 2012), but the true status of this species is highly uncertain.