Laevicaspia B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1917

Neubauer, Thomas A., Velde, Sabrina van de, Yanina, Tamara & Wesselingh, Frank P., 2018, A late Pleistocene gastropod fauna from the northern Caspian Sea with implications for Pontocaspian gastropod taxonomy, ZooKeys 770, pp. 43-103 : 43

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scientific name	Laevicaspia B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1917
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Treatment

Genus Laevicaspia B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1917

Laevicaspia ? 1902a Thaumasia Westerlund: 104 [non Perty, 1833; non Albers, 1850].

Laevicaspia 1917 Laevicaspia B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki: 5.

Laevicaspia 1928 Caspiella Thiele: 353, 381.

Laevicaspia 1999 Euxinipyrgula Sitnikova & Starobogatov: 158, 162.

Type species.

Rissoa caspia Eichwald, 1838; by subsequent designation by Logvinenko and Starobogatov (1969). Caspian Sea, Pleistocene.

Discussion.

Lindholm (1922) studied the type material of Buliminus goebeli Westerlund, 1896 from Mangyschlak (Mangystau Peninsula, Kazakhstan) and concluded that is a junior synonym of " Micromelania " Micromelania caspia (Eichwald, 1838). Westerlund (1902a), considering Buliminus goebeli as a member of terrestrial “Bulimoidea” (= Enidae ), introduced the new genus Thaumasia , which would take precedence over Laevicaspia B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1917. However, Thaumasia Westerlund, 1902 is invalid as a junior homonym of Thaumasia Perty, 1833 ( Arachnida) and Thaumasia Albers, 1850 ( Gastropoda, Subulinidae ) (see also Lindholm 1925).