Turricaspia eulimellula

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 : 85

Turricaspia eulimellula (Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915)

*1915 Micromelania (Turricaspia) eulimellula Dybowski & Grochmalicki: 123-125, pl. 3, fig. 27a, b.

2006 Pyrgula eulimellula (B. Dybowski & J. Grochmalicki, 1915). - Kantor and Sysoev: 99-100, pl. 46, fig. L.

2016 Pyrgula eulimellula (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915). - Vinarski and Kantor: 238-239.

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Caspian Sea (no details).

Distribution. Middle Caspian Sea Basin ( Logvinenko and Starobogatov 1969). This species was mentioned from depths between 200 and 400 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan ( Mirzoev and Alekperov 2017).

Taxonomic notes. The nearly straight-sided, strongly attached whorls easily distinguish this species from most other Turricaspia species. Only Turricaspia grimmi (Clessin & Dybowski in Dybowski, 1887) has a similar whorl arrangement, but its shell is slightly wider and the whorls are weakly stepped and bear a thin subsutural band.

Conservation status. Not assessed.