Caspia

For Caspian Sea, as it was known by ancient sources, see Caspian Sea.

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.^[2] Caspia is the type genus of the Caspiidae, that is a synonym of Pyrgulinae.^[2]

Caspia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Hydrobiidae
Subfamily:	Caspiinae
Genus:	Caspia Dybowski, 1888[1]

Species

Species within the genus Caspia include:

• Caspia baerii Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888 - type species, marine^[3]
• Caspia brotzkajae Starobogatov in Anistratenko & Prisjazhnjuk, 1992 - marine^[3]
• Caspia gaillardi (Tadjalli-Pour, 1977) - marine^[3]
• Caspia gmelinii Clessin & W. Dybowski in W. Dybowski, 1888 - marine^[3]
• Caspia knipowitchi Makarov, 1938 - marine and brackish^[3]
• Caspia logvinenkoi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966) - freshwater^[3]
• Caspia makarovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966) - freshwater and brackish^[3]
• Caspia pallasii Clessin & W. Dybowski, 1887
• Caspia stanislavi Alexenko & Starobogatov, 1987 - freshwater and brackish^[3]
• Caspia valkanovi (Golikov & Starobogatov, 1966)^[4]

Species brought into synonymy

• Caspia issykkulensis Clessin, 1894: synonym of Pseudocaspia issykkulensis (Clessin, 1894)