Laevicaspia conus

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 : 75-76

Laevicaspia conus (Eichwald, 1838)

*1838 Rissoa Conus Eichwald: 155.

non 1876 Eulima conus , Eichw?. - Grimm: 154-156, pl. 6, fig. 14.

non 2006 Turricaspia conus conus (Eichwald, 1838). - Kantor and Sysoev: 106, pl. 48, fig. J.

2016 Turricaspia conus conus (Eichwald, 1838). - Vinarski and Kantor: 246-247.

2018 Laevicaspia conus (Eichwald, 1838). - Neubauer et al.: 69-71, fig. 9 I–P [and synonyms therein].

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. In fossil limestone of Dagestan, Russia.

Distribution. Endemic to the Caspian Sea ( Logvinenko and Starobogatov 1969). This species was mentioned from depths between 200 and 300 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan ( Mirzoev and Alekperov 2017, who reported the species as Turricaspia conus ).

Taxonomic notes. For a detailed discussion about the identity of this polymorphic species and previous misidentifications, see Neubauer et al. (2018).

Conservation status. Data Deficient ( Vinarski 2011p).