Taxonomic revision of the rock-dwelling door snail genus Montenegrina Boettger, 1877 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Clausiliidae)
Author
Feher, Zoltan
Author
Szekeres, Miklos
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.599.8168
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.599.8168
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Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae
Montenegrina skipetarica ersekensis Nordsieck, 1996
Fig. 30F
Montenegrina
ersekensis
Nordsieck, 1996: 9-10, plate 2, fig. 3.
Montenegrina skipetarica ersekensis
-
Nordsieck 2009
: 73.
Diagnosis.
Shell medium, light corneous. Lower whorls smooth, upper ones very finely, indistinctly costate. Neck inflexed, with fine and dense ribs. Basal and peripheral crests well recognizable. Peristome attached, somewhat angular, with slightly swollen and reflexed margin. Lamellae superior and spiralis long overlap. In front view lamella inferior well emerged, subcolumellaris mostly visible. Lunella dorsolateral, connected to the strong basalis. Subclaustralis well developed, sulcalis weak. Anterior plica superior strong, connected to the lunella complex.
Dimensions
(in mm). Hs: 16.7-19.0 (holotype 16.7), Ws: 4.4-5.0 (holotype 4.5 mm).
Type
locality.
Albania,
Erseke
District, 7 km SW of
Erseke
along the road to Leskovik, 1100-1200 m.
Type material.
Type locality, leg. Welter-Schultes, 15.ix.1995, holotype (HNC 40587), paratypes (HNC 40585, SMNS-N 10311).
Other material.
Albania,
Erseke
District, 4.5 km S of Barmash along the Leskovik to
Erseke
road, 880 m,
40.2688°N
,
20.6065°E
, leg. ZF, LT, 17.viii.2007 (HNHM 99533); 4 km S of Barmash, 920 m,
40.2656°N
,
20.6001°E
, leg. DA, ZE, ZF, JG, 29.vi.2014 (HNHM 99375, NHMW 110430/MN/0031); 4.5 km NW of the
Germenj
junction, 890 m,
40.2418°N
,
20.6414°E
, leg. DA, ZE, ZF, JG, 29.vi.2014 (HNHM 99534, HNMW 110430/MN/0030).
Distribution.
Western extensions of the Gramos Mts in southern Albania (Fig. 31A). Known from a few sites of the limestone mountain between Barmash and
Germenj
along the Leskovik to
Erseke
main road (see also:
Welter-Schultes 1996
).
Remarks.
The literature record,
"2-
5 km E of
Corovode"
(
Welter-Schultes 1996
), most probably corresponds to
Montenegrina skipetarica rugosa
Feher
& Szekeres 2006.