Clathrocaspia brotzkajae

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 : 66

Clathrocaspia brotzkajae (Starobogatov in Anistratenko & Prisyazhniuk, 1992)

*1992 Caspia (Clathrocaspia) brotzkajae Starobogatov in Anistratenko & Prisyazhniuk: 18-19, fig. 2a.

2016 Caspia brotzkajae Starobogatov in Anistratenko & Prisyazhniuk, 1992. - Vinarski and Kantor: 224.

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Caspian Sea shores of Dagestan, Russia, at ca. 60 m.

Distribution. Presently endemic to the Caspian Sea. The species was also recorded from the Holocene of Danube Delta, Ukraine ( Anistratenko and Prisyazhniuk 1992).

Taxonomic notes. The species differs from its congeners in the bulbous shape, with a ratio of body whorl height/shell height of approx. 3/4, as well as regarding the expanded aperture.

Conservation status. Not assessed.