Turricaspia marisnigri

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 : 87

Turricaspia marisnigri Starobogatov in Alexenko & Starobogatov, 1987

*1987 Turricaspia lirata marisnigri Starobogatov in Alexenko & Starobogatov: 33.

Status. Pontocaspian species, identity uncertain.

Type locality. “Meotida” station 24, sample 229, near the coast of Crimea, in phaseoline silt (Holocene).

Distribution. Type locality only.

Taxonomic notes. The species can be distinguished based on its extremely slender shell with whorls slowly increasing in size. Still, clarification of its identity as well as its generic classification requires investigation of additional material.

Conservation status. So far only known from Holocene deposits of the type locality; species might be extinct. Within Holocene deposits in the Black Sea small amounts of reworked Late Pleistocene “Neoeuxinian” faunas are found (FW, pers. obs.), and therefore the stratigraphic origin of such Pontocaspian species is uncertain.