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]
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]
From editor or global species database
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]