Caspia

For Caspian Sea, as it was known by ancient Arabic sources, see Caspian Sea.
Caspia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Subfamily: Pyrgulinae[1]
Genus: Caspia
W. Dybowski, 1888[2]

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.[1] Caspia is the type genus of the Caspiidae, that is a synonym of Pyrgulinae.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Caspia include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997.
  2. Dybowski W. (1888). Malak. Bl., (N.F.) 10: 34.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Version 2.3.1
  4. WoRMS (2011). Caspia valkanovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=576361 on 2011-07-14