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Caucasopsis Grego & Mumladze, 2020
1452150 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1452150)
accepted
Genus
Caucasopsis letsurtsume Grego & Mumladze, 2020 (type by original designation)
Tachira Chertoprud, Palatov & Vinarski, 2021 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Caucasopsis aculeus (Starobogatov, 1962)
- Species Caucasopsis egrisi Grego & Mumladze, 2020
- Species Caucasopsis letsurtsume Grego & Mumladze, 2020
- Species Caucasopsis mapeli (Grego & Mumladze, 2020)
- Species Caucasopsis olsavskyi Grego & Mumladze, 2020
- Species Caucasopsis pichkalai (Grego & Mumladze, 2020)
- Species Caucasopsis schakuranica (Starobogatov, 1962)
- Species Caucasopsis shadini (Starobogatov, 1962)
- Species Caucasopsis valvataeformis (Starobogatov, 1962)
- Species Caucasopsis vinarskii (Grego & Mumladze, 2020)
- Species Caucasopsis orientalis (Starobogatov, 1962) accepted as Schapsugia pulcherrima (Starobogatov, 1962) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Caucasopsis pulcherrima (Starobogatov, 1962) accepted as Schapsugia pulcherrima (Starobogatov, 1962) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Caucasopsis subovata (Starobogatov, 1962) accepted as Schapsugia pulcherrima (Starobogatov, 1962) (a junior synonym)
recent only
Grego, J.; Mumladze, L.; Falniowski, A.; Osikowski, A.; Rysiewska, A.; Palatov, D. M.; Hofman, S. (2020). Revealing the stygobiotic and crenobiotic molluscan biodiversity hotspot in Caucasus: Part I. The phylogeny of stygobiotic Sadlerianinae Szarowska, 2006 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from Georgia with descriptions of five new genera and twenty-one new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 955: 1-77., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.955.51983
page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors
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Type locality contained in Georgia (Country)
type locality contained in Georgia (Country) [details]
Etymology The name derived from the prefix Caucas- referring to the distribution range in the Caucasus Mountains and suffix –opsis...
Etymology The name derived from the prefix Caucas- referring to the distribution range in the Caucasus Mountains and suffix –opsis reminiscent of the previously applied genus Paladilhiopsis Pavlović, 1913, adopted by Starobogatov (1962) for the similar shelled species from Abkhazia and from the Sochi region (Russia [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Caucasopsis Grego & Mumladze, 2020. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1452150 on 2025-09-11
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original description
Grego, J.; Mumladze, L.; Falniowski, A.; Osikowski, A.; Rysiewska, A.; Palatov, D. M.; Hofman, S. (2020). Revealing the stygobiotic and crenobiotic molluscan biodiversity hotspot in Caucasus: Part I. The phylogeny of stygobiotic Sadlerianinae Szarowska, 2006 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from Georgia with descriptions of five new genera and twenty-one new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 955: 1-77., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.955.51983
page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Tachira Chertoprud, Palatov & Vinarski, 2021) Chertoprud, E. M.; Palatov, D. M.; Vinarski, M. V. (2021). Revealing the stygobiont and crenobiont Mollusca biodiversity hotspot in the Caucasus: Part III. Revision of stygobiont microsnails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from the Russian part of Western Transcaucasia, with the description of new taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5005(3): 257-275., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5005.3.2
page(s): 272 [details]
basis of record Glöer P. (2022). The freshwater gastropods of the West Palaearctis. Identification key, Anatomy, Ecology, Distribution. III. Hydrobiidae. <em>Hetlingen: The author.</em> 528 pp.
page(s): 136 [details]
page(s): 35 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Tachira Chertoprud, Palatov & Vinarski, 2021) Chertoprud, E. M.; Palatov, D. M.; Vinarski, M. V. (2021). Revealing the stygobiont and crenobiont Mollusca biodiversity hotspot in the Caucasus: Part III. Revision of stygobiont microsnails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from the Russian part of Western Transcaucasia, with the description of new taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5005(3): 257-275., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5005.3.2
page(s): 272 [details]
basis of record Glöer P. (2022). The freshwater gastropods of the West Palaearctis. Identification key, Anatomy, Ecology, Distribution. III. Hydrobiidae. <em>Hetlingen: The author.</em> 528 pp.
page(s): 136 [details]
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Etymology The name derived from the prefix Caucas- referring to the distribution range in the Caucasus Mountains and suffix –opsis reminiscent of the previously applied genus Paladilhiopsis Pavlović, 1913, adopted by Starobogatov (1962) for the similar shelled species from Abkhazia and from the Sochi region (Russia [details]
