Dreissena caspia caspia Eichwald, 1855

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Dreissena (Dreissena) caspia caspia Eichwald, 1855

See Graf & Cummings (2025) for a more complete taxonomic history.

Conservation Status

Missing (Rintelen & Van Damme, 2011; Cowie et al., 2017; Wesselingh et al., 2019)

Last record: 1940's (Rosenberg & Ludyanskiy, 1994; Starobogatov & Andreeva, 1994)

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

Distribution

Caspian Sea

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Eichwald, C. E. (1855). Zur Naturgeschichte des Kaspischen Meeres. Nouveaux mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes, Moscou. 10: 283-323.

Other references:

Bogutskaya, N. G., Kijashko, P. V., Naseka, A. M. and Orlova, M. I. (2013). Identification keys for fish and invertebrates. Volume 1: Fish and molluscs. КМК Scientific Press Ltd., St. Petersburg - Moscow.

Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.

Dumont, H. J. (1998). The Caspian Lake: History, Biota, Structure, and Function. Limnology and Oceanography 43(1): 44-52.

Filippov, Andrei and Riedel, Frank. (2009). The late Holocene mollusc fauna of the Aral Sea and its biogeographical and ecological interpretation. Limnologica 39(1): 67-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2008.04.003

Graf, Daniel L. and Cummings, Kevin S. (2025). The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). MUSSEL Project Web Site, https://www.mussel-project.net/. Accessed 1 July 2025.

Grimm, Oskar Andreevich. (1876). Kaspinskoe more i ego fauna. Тип. М. Стасюлевича. 168 pp.

Grimm, Oskar Andreevich. (1877). Kaspinskoe more i ego fauna, Tetrady 2. Тип. М. Стасюлевича. 105 pp.

Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Kantor, Y. I., Vinarski, M. V., Schileyko, A. A. and Sysoev, A. V. (2010). Catalogue of the Continental Mollusks of Russia and Adjacent Territories, Version 2.3.1. 330 pp.

Logvinenko, B. M. and Starobogatov, Y. I. (1969). Mollusca, pp. 308-385. In: Birshtein, Y. A., Vinogradov, L. G., Kondakov, N. N., Kuhn, M. S., Astakhova, T. V., Romanova, N. N. (ed.). Atlas Bespozvonochnykh Kaspiyskogo Morya [Atlas of Invertebrates of the Caspian Sea]. Pishchevaya Promyshlennost (Vsesoyuznyi Nauchno-issledovatel'skii Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaistva i Okeanografii), Moscow.

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dreissena caspia caspia Eichwald, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1600141 on 2025-07-01

Plotnikov, I. S., Ermakhanov, Z. K., Aladin, N. V. and Micklin, P. (2016). Modern state of the Small (Northern) Aral Sea fauna. Lakes & Reservoirs: Science, Policy and Management for Sustainable Use 21(4): 315-328. https://doi.org/10.1111/lre.12149

Rintelen, T. and Van Damme, D. (2011). Dreissena caspia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T188971A8669278. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T188971A8669278.en. Downloaded on 25 December 2015.

Rosenberg, G. and Ludyanskiy, M. L. (1994). A nomenclatural review of Dreissena (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae) with identification of the quagga mussel as Dreissena bugensis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51: 1474-1484.

Slugina, Z. V. (2006). Endemic Bivalvia in ancient lakes. Hydrobiologia 568(S): 213-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-006-0312-z

Starobogatov, Y. I. and Andreeva, S. I. (1994). Range, pp. 47-53. In: Starobogatov, Y. I. (ed.). Dreissena polymorpha (Pall.) (Bivalvia, Dreissenidae). Taxonomy, Ecology and Practical Meaning. Moscow, Russia: Nauka Press.

Vinarski, M. V. and Kantor, YuI. (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 pp.

Wesselingh, F. P., Neubauer, T. A., Anistratenko, V. V., Vinarski, M., 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. and 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

Zhadin, V. I. (1965). Mollusks of fresh and brackish waters of the USSR. 365 pp.

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