Turricaspia lyrata (Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915)

*1915 Micromelania (Turricaspia) spica var. lyrata Dybowski & Grochmalicki: 117, pl. 2, fig. 18.

2006 Pyrgula lirata [sic] (B. Dybowski & J. Grochmalicki, 1915). - Kantor and Sysoev: 101, pl. 46, fig. E.

2016 Pyrgula lirata [sic] (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915). - Vinarski and Kantor: 240.

2018 Turricaspia lyrata (B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1915). - Neubauer et al.: 77-79, fig. 12 A–K [and synonyms therein].

Status. Accepted Pontocaspian species.

Type locality. Caspian Sea (no details).

Distribution. Endemic to the Caspian Sea (after Logvinenko and Starobogatov 1969); it occurs in the western part of the middle and southern Caspian Sea basins, but these authors used a slightly different concept of the species. This species was mentioned from depths between 200 and 300 m in the South Caspian Basin of Azerbaijan (Mirzoev and Alekperov 2017, who reported the species as Turricaspia lirata).

Taxonomic notes. See Neubauer et al. (2018) for a detailed discussion of the species and its synonyms.

Conservation status. Not assessed.