Turricaspia grimmi

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 : 86

Turricaspia grimmi (Clessin & Dybowski in Dybowski, 1887)

*1887 Micromelania Grimmi Clessin & Dybowski in Dybowski: 27-29.

1888 [ Micromelania ] Grimmi n. sp. - Dybowski: 78, pl. 1, fig. 2 a–c.

2006 Pyrgula grimmi (Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888). - Kantor and Sysoev: 100, pl. 46, fig. L.

2016 Pyrgula grimmi (Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888). - Vinarski and Kantor: 239.

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Caspian Sea (no details).

Distribution. Southern Caspian Sea Basin ( 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).

Taxonomic notes. The peculiar morphology with straight-sided, weakly stepped whorls with a thin subsutural band is unique among Caspian Pyrgulinae. See above for a comparison with T. eulimellula .

Conservation status. Data Deficient ( Vinarski 2011i).