Laevicaspia abichi

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

Laevicaspia abichi (Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1969)

*1969 Pyrgula (Caspiella) abichi Logvinenko & Starobogatov: 372, fig. 366(3).

2016 Pyrgula abichi Logvinenko & Starobogatov, 1968. - Vinarski and Kantor: 235.

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Southern and western parts of the Middle Caspian Sea, 36-120 m.

Distribution. Middle and South Caspian Basin. This species was mentioned from depths between 200 and 400 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan ( Mirzoev and Alekperov 2017, who reported the species as Turricaspia abichi ).

Taxonomic notes. The species differs from the L. cincta in its much larger size, the conical shape, the narrower subsutural band, and the larger aperture (compare Neubauer et al. 2018).

Conservation status. Data Deficient ( Vinarski 2011e).