Clathrocaspia gaillardi ( Tadjalli-Pour, 1977 )

Anistratenko, Vitaliy V., Neubauer, Thomas A., Anistratenko, Olga Yu., Kijashko, Pavel V. & Wesselingh, Frank P., 2021, A revision of the Pontocaspian gastropods of the subfamily Caspiinae (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae), Zootaxa 4933 (2), pp. 151-197 : 169-171

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.2.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4559936

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Clathrocaspia gaillardi ( Tadjalli-Pour, 1977 )
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Clathrocaspia gaillardi ( Tadjalli-Pour, 1977) View in CoL

Figs 9 View FIGURE 9 , 10 View FIGURE 10

Pyrgula (Caspia) gaillardi , N. Espece—Tadjalli-Pour 1977: 107, fig. 8.

C. [aspia] (Cl. [athrocaspia]) gaillardi ( Tadjalli-Pour, 1977) — Sitnikova & Starobogatov 1998: 1363–1364, fig. 1.13.

Caspia gaillardi ( Tadjalli-Pour, 1977) View in CoL — Kantor & Sysoev 2006: 87.

Type material. Holotype, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire de l’Université de Téhéran; not studied. One paratype should be in ZIN (“Un spécimen paratype a été déposé au Musée Malacologique de Leningrad ”; Tadjalli-Pour 1977: 107), but it could not be found.

Type locality. Caspian Sea , Astara-Hachtpar ( Iran), 0–30 m.

Other material. Kantor & Sysoev (2006: 87) were unable to locate identified samples in the ZIN collections, but we retrieved a lot in the Starobogatov collection containing 12 specimens determined as “ Caspia gaillardi ”, collected in the Middle Caspian Basin off Apsheron Peninsula ( Table 1 View TABLE 1 , locality 13). Additional five specimens come from the South Caspian Basin off Cheleken Peninsula (locality 18, labelled as “ Caspia subgmelini ”) and six specimens derive from late Holocene deposits of the Kura delta (localities 25a and 25f, RGM 1310299–1310304).

Description. Shell comparably large, broadly conical, consisting of up to 5 low to moderately convex, slightly stepped whorls. Protoconch bulbous, ranges around 320–335 µm and consists of c. 1.2 whorls; surface strongly sculptured, with distinct wrinkles that increase in size and become more irregular towards teleoconch; final triangu-lar part of protoconch always devoid of wrinkles ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 a–i); additionally, spiral threads occur on first half whorl ( Fig. 10e, g, h View FIGURE 10 ). Teleoconch covered with strong reticulate sculpture, with sharp ribs and subquadrangular interspaces; spirals dominate, axials faintly sigmoid. Aperture ovoid, sometimes detached, leaving slit-like umbilicus; in other cases, basal columellar margin expands beyond columella and covers umbilicus.

Remarks. The material in the Starobogatov’s collection fits well to C. gaillardi as described and illustrated by Tadjalli-Pour (1977), regarding the broad conical shape with five whorls, the marked sutures, the strong sculpture and the comparably large size. Similarly, five specimens labelled in Starobogatov’s collection as “ Caspia subgmelini ” (an unavailable collection name; Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 f–i) collected off Cheleken Peninsula fit well to C. gaillardi , and so do specimens from the Holocene deposits off the Kura delta ( Fig. 9 View FIGURE 9 j–n). Some of the specimens only have a less stepped spire than is typical of C. gaillardi , but we consider this to range within intraspecific variability.

Sitnikova & Starobogatov (1998) provided data on the female reproductive anatomy and the radula of this species. They noted that the studied morphological characters of C. gaillardi and C. gmelinii are almost identical. Also Wesselingh et al. (2019) listed the species as a tentative synonym of C. gmelinii . However, C. gmelinii is much smaller and has a less stepped outline and a weaker reticulate sculpture. Specimens of C. gaillardi also show a certain similarity to C. pallasii , but the latter species can be distinguished by its larger, bulbous protoconch and the more slender shell. The stepped teleoconch of C. gaillardi and the comparably high last whorl also differentiates it from C. isseli .

Distribution. Caspian Sea, South Basin to southern part of Middle Basin, known only from shallow waters (max. depth of 44 m).

ZIN

Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum

RGM

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Littorinimorpha

Family

Hydrobiidae

Genus

Clathrocaspia

Loc

Clathrocaspia gaillardi ( Tadjalli-Pour, 1977 )

Anistratenko, Vitaliy V., Neubauer, Thomas A., Anistratenko, Olga Yu., Kijashko, Pavel V. & Wesselingh, Frank P. 2021
2021
Loc

Caspia gaillardi ( Tadjalli-Pour, 1977 )

Kantor, Yu. I. & Sysoev, A. V. 2006: 87
2006
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