A review of the Ponto-Caspian genus Caspiohydrobia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae)

S.I. Andreeva, P.V. Kijashko, T.Ya. Sitnikova & M.V. Vinarski

Abstract. The paper reviews all available information on the species content, distribution and ecology of brackishwater hydrobiid snails belonging to the genus Caspiohydrobia Starobogatov, 1970. The annotated list of nominal species with remarks on their taxonomy, nomenclature and distribution is provided as well as photographic images of some type specimens and/or topotypes. In total, the genus includes 31 nominal species distributed almost exclusively within the former Paratethys basin. The lectotype for the species C. cylindrica Logvinenko et Starobogatov, 1969 is designated. A short overview of the known habitat preferences of various Caspiohydrobia species is provided. We consider Caspiohydrobia a genus of Ponto-Caspian origin, whose range extends southwards to Iraq, Iran and Tajikistan and northwards to West Siberia. The actual species content of the genus as well as its generic independence require a further integrative revision, since most of the nominal species of Caspiohydrobia are still known from dried shells only and may actually be synonyms of a few (or even a single) species.
Key words: brakishwater Gastropoda, taxonomic catalogue, nomenclature, distribution, Ponto-Caspian fauna

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2022, 31(2): 304–328  ▪  Published online 29 December 2022


https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2022.31.2.304  ▪  Open full article  

References

Aladin N.V., Plotnikov I.S. & Smurov A.O. 2022. Molluscs of the Aral Sea. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 101: 123–144. (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.31857/S0044513421120023

Andreev N.I. & Andreeva S.I. 1990a. Zoobenthos of the Aral Sea kultuks before and after the river inflow regulations (on the problem of the horohaline zone position in the Aral Sea). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR, 232: 54–67. (In Russian).

Andreev N.I. & Andreeva S.I. 1990b. The salinity resistance of some mass invertebrate species of the Aral Sea. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR, 232: 86–104. (In Russian).

Andreeva S.I. 1987. Molluscs of the genus Caspiohydrobia Starobogatov, 1970 from waterbodies of Kazakhstan. In: Starobogatov Y.I., Golikov A.N. & Likharev I.M. (Eds). Mollyuski: Rezul’taty i perspektivy ikh issledovaniy. Vos’moe vsesoyuznoe soveshchanie po izucheniyu mollyuskov. Leningrad, aprel’ 1987 g. Avtoreferaty dokladov [Molluscs: Results and perspectives of their investigations. Eight All-Union Conference on the on the investigation of mollusсs. Leningrad, April 1987. Abstracts of communications]: 178–180. Leningrad: Nauka Publishers. (In Russian).

Andreeva S.I. & Andreev N.I. 2003. Evolyutsionnye preobrazovaniya dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov Aral’skogo morya v usloviyakh ekologicheskogo krizisa [The evolutionary transformations of bivalves of the Aral Sea under condition of ecological crisis]. Omsk: Omsk State Pedagogical University Press. 382 p.

Andreeva S.I., Andreev N.I. & Mikhailov R.A. 2020. Records of molluscs of the genus Caspiohydrobia Starobogatov, 1970 (Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) in salt rivers of the Caspian Lowland. Biology Bulletin, 47: 912–919. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359020080026

Andreeva S.I. & Frolova E.S. 1989. New species of molluscs from the family Pyrgulidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) from brackish waterbodies of Kazakhstan. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 68: 134–135. (In Russian).

Anistratenko V.V., Anistratenko O.Yu. & Shydlovskyy I.V. 2018. Karl E. von Baer’s collection of Caspian Sea molluscs stored in the Zoological Museum of Lviv University, Ukraine, 1. Catalogue and general description. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 147: 223–236. https://doi.org/10.1127/arch.moll/147/223-236

Anistratenko V., Anistratenko O. & Kadolsky D. 2019. Karl E. von Baer’s collection of Caspian Sea molluscs stored in the Zoological Museum of Lviv University, Ukraine, 2. Type materials of gastropod species described by Stephan Clessin and Władysław Dybowski in 1887–1888. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 148: 35–62. https://doi.org/10.1127/arch.moll/148/035-062

Anistratenko V.V., Khaliman I.A. & Anistratenko O.Yu. 2011. Mollyuski Azovskogo morya [Molluscs of the Azov Sea]. Kiev: Naukova dumka. 176 p.

Anistratenko V.V., Neubauer T.A., Anistratenko O.Y., Kijashko P.V. & Wesselingh F.P. 2021a. A revision of the Pontocaspian gastropods of the subfamily Caspiinae (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Zootaxa, 4933: 151–197. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4933.2.1

Anistratenko V.V., Palatov D.M., Chertoprud E.M., Sitnikova T.Y., Anistratenko O.Y., Clewing C. & Vinarski M.V. 2022. Keyhole into a lost world: The first purely freshwater species of the Ponto-Caspian genus Clathrocaspia (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Diversity, 14: 232. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14040232

Anistratenko V.V., Sitnikova T.Ya. & Anistratenko O.Yu. 2021b. Holotypes for three Caspian gastropods of the family Hydrobiidae tracked down: description and taxonomic interpretations. Zootaxa, 5027: 408–416. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5027.3.6

Anistratenko V.V., Sitnikova T.Ya., Kijashko P.V., Vinarski M.V. & Anistratenko O.Yu. 2020. A review of species of the genus Theodoxus (Gastropoda: Neritidae) of the Ponto-Caspian region, with considerations on available type materials. Ruthenica: Russian malacological Journal, 30: 115–134. https://doi.org/10.35885/ruthenica.2021.30(2).5

Anistratenko V.V. & Stadnichenko A.P. 1995. Littorinoobraznye, rissoiobraznye. Fauna Ukraini [Fauna of Ukraine], (1994), 29(1). Kiev: Naukova dumka. 175 p. (In Russian).

Badzoshvili Ts.I. 1979. Mollyuski meotisa zapadnoy Gruzii [Molluscs of the maeotis of western Georgia]. Tbilisi: Metsniereba. 144 p.

Dance S.P. 1986. A history of shell collecting. Leiden: E.J. Brill, Dr. W. Backhuys. 230 p.

Dybowski W. 1877. Die Gasteropoden-Fauna des Kaspischen Meeres. Nach der Sammlung des Akademikers Dr. K. E. v. Baer. Malakozoologische Blätter (Neue Folge), 10(1–3): 1–64.

Eichwald C.E. 1838. Faunae Caspii Maris primitiae. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou11: 125–174.

Eichwald C.E. 1855. Zur Naturgeschichte des Kaspischen Meeres. Nouveaux mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes, Moscou10: 283–323.

Filippov A. & Riedel F.2009. The late Holocene mollusc fauna of the Aral Sea and its biogeographical and ecological interpretation. Limnologica, 39: 67–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2008.04.003

Frolova E.S. 1984. Freshwater Mollusca of northern Kazakhstan and their role in the benthos biomass and natural complexes. In: Petlina A.P. (Ed). Zametki po faune i flore Sibiri [Notes on the Siberian fauna and flora]: 42–50. Tomsk: Tomsk State University Press.

Glöer P. & Pešič V. 2012. The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species. ZooKeys, 219: 11–61. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.219.3406

Gogaladze A., Son M.O., Lattuada M., Anistratenko V.V., Syomin V.L., Pavel A.B., Popa O.P., Popa L.O., ter Poorten J.-J., Biesmeijer J.C., Raes N., Wilke T., Sands A.F., Trichkova T., Hubenov Z.K., Vinarski M.V., Anistratenko O.Yu., Alexenko T.L. & Wesselingh F.P. 2021. Decline of unique Pontocaspian biodiversity in the Black Sea Basin: A review. Ecology & Evolution, 11: 12923–12947. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8022

Golikov A.N. & Starobogatov Ya.I. 1966. Ponto-Caspian gastropods in the Azov-Black Sea Basin. Zoologicherskiy Zhurnal, 45: 352–362. (In Russian).

Golikov A.N. & Starobogatov Y.I. (1972) Class Gastropoda Cuvier, 1797. In: Vodyanitsky V.A. (Ed). Opredelitel’ fauny Chernogo i Azovskogo morey [Identification Key to the Fauna of the Black and Azov Seas], 3. Svobodnozhivushchie bespozvonochnye [Free Living Invertebrates]: 65–166. Kiev: Naukova Dumka. (In Russian).

Gusskov S.A., Kanygin A.V., Kuzmin Ya.V., Burr G.S., Jull A.J.T. & Khazin L.B. 2008. Ingression of the Aral Sea water to southern West Siberia in the Holocene: Paleontological evidence and chronology. Doklady Akademii Nauk, 418(2): 217–220. (In Russian. English translation: Doklady Earth Sciences, 418: 24–27. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X08010066).

Gusskov S.A., Zhakov E.Yu., Kuzmin Ya.V., Krivonogov S.K., Burr D.S. & Kanygin A.V. 2011. New data on evolution of the Aral Sea and its relations with the West Siberian Plain through the Holocene. Doklady Akademii Nauk, 437(6): 789–792. (In Russian. English translation: Doklady Earth Sciences, 437: 460–463. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X11040167).

Haase M., Naser M.D. & Wilke T.2010. Ecrobia grimmiin brackish Lake Sawa, Iraq: indirect evidence for longdistance dispersal of hydrobiid gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea) by birds. Journal of molluscan Studies, 76: 101–105. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyp051

Ilyina L.B., Nevesskaya L.A. & Paramonova N.P. 1976. Zakonomernosti razvitiya mollyuskov v opresnennykh basseinakh neogena Evrazii (pozdniy Miocen – ranniy Pliotsen) [The peculiarities of development of molluscs in desalinated basins of the Neogene of Eurasia (late Miocene – early Pliocene)]. Moskva: Nauka Publishers. 288 p.

Izzatullaev Z. 2018. Mollyuski v vodnykh ekosistemakh Sredney Azii [Molluscs of the aquatic ecosystems of Middle Asia]. Tashkent: Lessonpress. 232 p.

Izzatullaev Z. 2019. Fauna mollyuskov vodnykh ekosistem Sredney Azii [Fauna of molluscs of the aquatic ecosystems of Middle Asia]. Tashkent: Lessonpess. 328 p.

Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. 2006. Marine and brakish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 371 p.

Kijashko P.V. 2013. Mollusca of the Caspian Sea. In: Bogutskaya N.G., Kijashko P.V., Naseka A.M. & Orlova M.I. (Eds). Identification keys for fish and invertebrates of the Caspian Sea,1. Fish and molluscs: 292–392. Moscow: КМКScientific Press. (In Russian).

Kolesnikov V.P. 1947. A table for identification of gastropods of the Caspian Sea. Byulleten’ Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytateley Prirody. Otdel geologicheskiy, 22: 105–112. (In Russian).

Krivonogov S.K., Burr G.S., Kuzmin Y.V., Gusskov S.A., Kurmanbaev R.K., Kenshinbay T.I. & Voyakin D.A.2014. The fluctuating Aral Sea: a multidisciplinary-based history of the last two thousand years. Gondwana Research, 26: 284–300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.02.004

Küster H.C. 1852. Die Gattungen Paludina, Hydrocaena und Valvata. In: Schubert G.H. von & Wagner J.A.(Eds). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, 1(21): 1–96.Nürnberg: Bauer und Raspe.

Lattuada M., Albrecht C. & Wilke T. 2019. Differential impact of anthropogenic pressures on Caspian Sea ecoregions. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 142: 274–281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.03.046

Lattuada M., Albrecht C., Wesselingh F.P., Klinkenbuß D., Vinarski M.V., Kijashko P., Raes N. & Wilke T. 2019 Endemic Caspian Sea mollusks in hotspot and non-hotspot areas differentially affected by anthropogenic pressures. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 46: 1221–1226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2019.12.007

Logvinenko B.M. & Starobogatov Ya.I. 1969. Mollusca. In: Birshtein Ya.A., Vinogradov L.G., Kondakov N.N., Kuhn M.S., Astakhova T.V. & Romanova N.N. (Eds). Atlas bespozvonochnykh Kaspiyskogo morya [Atlas of invertebrates of the Caspian Sea]: 308–385. (1968). Moscow: Pishchevaya Promyshlennost’.

Neubauer T.A., Anistratenko O.Yu., Anistratenko V.V., Kijashko P., Stoica M., van de Velde S., Vinarski M.V. & Wesselingh W.P. 2021. A revision of the poorly known Pontocaspian gastropod genus Abeskunus, and its central Paratethyan origin. Historical Biology, 33: 1580–1597. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1720015

Neubauer T.A., Van De Velde S., Yanina T. & Wesselingh F.P. 2018. A late Pleistocene gastropod fauna from the northern Caspian Sea with implications for Pontocaspian gastropod taxonomy. ZooKeys, 770: 43–103. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.770.25365

Riedel F., Kossler A., Tarasov P. & Wünnemann B. 2011. A study on Holocene foraminifera from the Aral Sea and West Siberian lakes and its implication for migration pathways. Quaternary International, 229: 105–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2010.03.009

Rust J. 1997. Evolution, Systematik, Paläoökologie und stratigraphischer Nutzen neogener Süß- und Brackwasser-Gastropoden im Nord-Ägäis-Raum. Palaeontographica. Abteilung A, 243: 37–180. https://doi.org/10.1127/pala/243/1997/37

Sands A.F., Neubauer T.A., Nasibi S., Harandi M.F., Anistratenko V.V., Wilke T. & Albrecht C. 2019. Old lake versus young taxa: A comparative phylogeographic perspective on the evolution of Caspian Sea gastropods (Neritidae: Theodoxus). Royal Society open Science, 6: 190965. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190965

Shirokaya A.A., Sitnikova T.Ya., Vinarski M.V., Palatov D.M., Kijashko P.V. & Izzatullaev Z.I. 2019. Fresh- and brackish-water gastropod taxa described by Zuvaidullo I. Izzatullaev. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 148: 197–261. https://doi.org/10.1127/arch.moll/148/197-261

Shishkoedova O.S. 2011. To the fauna and distribution of molluscs of the genus Caspiohydrobia(Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) in the Transuralia and Western Siberia. In: Antonova E.V., Kukarskikh V.V., Ushakova K.I. & Sadykova N.O. (Eds). Ekologiya: skvoz’ vremya i rasstoyanie. Materialy vserossiyskoy konferentsii molodykh uchenykh. 11-15 aprelya 2011 g. Ekaterinburg[Ecology: through time and space. Materials of the young scientists’ meeting. 11–15 April 2011]: 201–205. Ekaterinburg: Goschchitsky Publisher. (In Russian)

Sitnikova T.Ya. & Starobogatov Ya.I. 1998.The reproductive system and radula of the Caspian Pyrgulidae (subfamilies Turricaspiinae and Caspiinae. Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 77: 1357–1367. (In Russian).

Sitnikova T.Ya. & Starobogatov Ya.I. 1999.A new genus of the family Pyrgulidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) from the fresh waters of the Azov-Black Sea basin (in relation to the question of the Ponto-Caspian species in the Azov-Black Sea region). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 78: 158–163. (In Russian).

Sitnikova T.Ya., Starobogatov Ya.I. & Anistratenko, V.V. 1992. Anatomy and taxonomic position of some small European pectinibranch molluscs (Mollusca Gastropoda). Vestnik Zoologii, 6: 3–12. (In Russian).

Starobogatov Ya.I. 1970. Fauna mollyuskov i zoogeograficheskoe rayonirovanie zemnogo shara [Fauna of mollusks and the zoogeographical regionalisation of fresh waterbodies of the World]. Leningrad: Nauka Publishers. 372 p.

Starobogatov Ya.I. 1974. Phylum Mollusca. In: Mordukhai-Boltovskoy F.D. (Ed.). Atlas bespozvonochnykh Aral’skogo morya [Atlas of invertebrates of the Aral Sea]: 237–257. Moscow: Pishchevaya Promyshlennost’.

Starobogatov Ya.I. & Andreeva S.I. 1981. New species of mollusks of the family Pyrgulidae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia) from the Aral Sea. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 60: 29–35. (In Russian).

Starobogatov Ya.I. & Izzatullaev Z. 1974. New species of brackish water mollusks of the family Pyrgulidae (Prosobranchia) from Tajikistan. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal,53: 933–935. (In Russian).

Tadjalli-Pour M. 1980. Contribution àl’étude de la faune bentique de la partie ouest de le mer Caspienne sud. Publication scientifique de recherche de la Mer. Societé National Iranienne des Sciences de la Mer, 1: 1–126. Iran: Universite de Jundi-Shappur.

Vandendorpe J., Baak C., Stelbrink B., Delicado D. & Wilke T.2019. Historical faunal exchange between the Pontocaspian Basin and North America. Ecology and Evolution, 9: 10816–10827. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5602

Vinarski M.V. & Kantor Yu.I. 2016. Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. Moscow: A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS. 544 p.

Wesselingh F.P., Neubauer T.A., Anistratenko V.V., Vinarski M.V., Yanina T., ter Poorten J.J., Kijashko P., Albrecht C., Anistratenko O.Y., D’ Hont A., Frolov P., Gándara A.M., Gittenberger A., Gogaladze A., Karpinsky M., Lattuada M., Popa L., Sands A.F., Van de Velde S., Vandendorpe J. & Wilke, T. 2019. Mollusc species from the Pontocaspian region – an expert opinion list. ZooKeys, 827: 31–124. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.827.31365.figure2

Zhadin V.I. 1952. Mollyuski presnykh i solonovatykh vod SSSR [Molluscs of the fresh- and saline waterbodies of the USSR].Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye Zoologicheskim institutom AN SSSR [Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR], 46: 1–376. Moscow–Leningrad: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. (In Russian).

Volume, Year:
Vol. 33. 2024
Vol. 32. 2023
Vol. 31. 2022
Vol. 30. 2021
Vol. 29. 2020
Vol. 28. 2019
Vol. 27. 2018
Vol. 26. 2017
Vol. 25. 2016
Vol. 24. 2015
Vol. 23. 2014
Vol. 22. 2013
Vol. 21. 2012
Vol. 20. 2011
Vol. 19. 2010
Vol. 18. 2009
Vol. 17. 2008
Vol. 16. 2007
Vol. 15. 2006
Vol. 14. 2005
Vol. 13. 2004
Vol. 12. 2003
Vol. 11. 2002
Vol. 10. 2001
Vol. 9. 2000
Vol. 8. 1999
Vol. 7. 1998
Vol. 6. 1997
Vol. 5. 1996
Vol. 4. 1995
Vol. 3. 1994
Vol. 2. 1993
Vol. 1. 1992
Supplementa:
Suppl. 3. 2020
Suppl. 2. 2018