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Caspia

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.

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Caspia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Caspiinae
Genus: Caspia
Dybowski, 18881

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.2 Caspia is the type genus of the Caspiidae, that is a synonym of Pyrgulinae.2

Species

Species within the genus Caspia include:

  • Caspia baerii Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888 - type species, marine3
  • Caspia brotzkajae Starobogatov in Anistratenko & Prisjazhnjuk, 1992 - marine3
  • Caspia gaillardi (Tadjalli-Pour, 1977) - marine3
  • Caspia gmelinii Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888 - marine3
  • Caspia knipowitchi Makarov, 1938 - marine and brackish3
  • Caspia logvinenkoi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966) - freshwater3
  • Caspia makarovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966) - freshwater and brackish3
  • Caspia pallasii Clessin & W. Dybowski, 1887
  • Caspia stanislavi Alexenko & Starobogatov, 1987 - freshwater and brackish3
  • Caspia valkanovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966)4
Species brought into synonymy
  • Caspia issykkulensis Clessin, 1894: synonym of Pseudocaspia issykkulensis (Clessin, 1894)
References

References

  1. Dybowski W. (1888). Malakozoologische Blätter, (N.F.) 10: 34.
  2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. 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
  4. 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