Caspia Explained

Caspia is a genus of marine snails, brackish water snails and freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. Caspia is the type genus of the Caspiidae, that is a synonym of Pyrgulinae.

Species

Species within the genus Caspia include:

• Caspia baerii Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888 - type species, marine^[1]
• Caspia brotzkajae Starobogatov in Anistratenko & Prisjazhnjuk, 1992 - marine^[1]
• Caspia gaillardi (Tadjalli-Pour, 1977) - marine^[1]
• Caspia gmelinii Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888 - marine^[1]
• Caspia knipowitchi Makarov, 1938 - marine and brackish^[1]
• Caspia logvinenkoi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966) - freshwater^[1]
• Caspia makarovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966) - freshwater and brackish^[1]
• Caspia pallasii Clessin & W. Dybowski, 1887
• Caspia stanislavi Alexenko & Starobogatov, 1987 - freshwater and brackish^[1]
• Caspia valkanovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966)^[2]

Species brought into synonymy:

• Caspia issykkulensis Clessin, 1894: synonym of Pseudocaspia issykkulensis (Clessin, 1894)

Notes and References

1. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1
2. WoRMS (2011). Caspia valkanovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576361 on 2011-07-14