Genus Iraklimelania Willmann, 1981

Type species.

Iraklimelania levis Willmann, 1981; by original designation.

Remarks.

The revised attribution of Iraklimelania, originally tentatively placed in " Micromelaniidae " by Willmann (1981), to Caspiinae is based on two pillars. First, the protoconch sculpture, with the malleate surface bearing faint spiral striae and a thickened terminal portion, reminds of species of Caspiinae (Anistratenko et al. 2021). Extant Pontocaspian members are typically characterized by an increasing sculpture intensity toward the end and the upper whorl half of the protoconch, as well as sculpture-free triangle at the P/T boundary (Anistratenko et al. 2021), which is missing though in the Turkish material. Second, the close morphological similarity to species of Graecoanatolica, recently placed in Caspiinae as well, supports a classification in that subfamily.