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Caspia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Rissooidea

Subfamily
  
Pyrgulinae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Hydrobiidae

Scientific name
  
Caspia

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Pseudamnicola, Hydrobiidae, Belgrandiella, Lithoglyphus, Black Sea sprat

Caspia is a genus of marine snails, brackish water snails and freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Hydrobiidae. Caspia is the type genus of the Caspiidae, that is a synonym of Pyrgulinae.

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Species

Species within the genus Caspia include:

  • Caspia baerii Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888 - type species, marine
  • Caspia brotzkajae Starobogatov in Anistratenko & Prisjazhnjuk, 1992 - marine
  • Caspia gaillardi (Tadjalli-Pour, 1977) - marine
  • Caspia gmelinii Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888 - marine
  • Caspia knipowitchi Makarov, 1938 - marine and brackish
  • Caspia logvinenkoi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966) - freshwater
  • Caspia makarovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966) - freshwater and brackish
  • Caspia pallasii Clessin & W. Dybowski, 1887
  • Caspia stanislavi Alexenko & Starobogatov, 1987 - freshwater and brackish
  • Caspia valkanovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966)
    • Species brought into synonymy
  • Caspia issykkulensis Clessin, 1894: synonym of Pseudocaspia issykkulensis (Clessin, 1894)

    • References

    Caspia Wikipedia
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