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
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.599.8168
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Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae
Montenegrina hiltrudae protruda Gittenberger, 2002
Fig. 19H
Montenegrina
dennisi protruda
Gittenberger, 2002: 135, figs 9-10, 16 (clausilium plate), 17-19 (clausilium plate microarmature). -
Nordsieck 2009
: 73.
Diagnosis.
Shell medium, light to brownish-corneous. Lower whorls smooth, upper ones finely striate. Neck very weakly inflexed, finely costate. Basal and peripheral crests weak. Peristome detached, ovoid, with somewhat swollen margin. Lamellae superior and spiralis mostly overlap. In front view lamella inferior well emerged, broadly-bent subcolumellaris not visible. Lunella dorsal, short and broad, not fused to the basalis. Subclaustralis not recognizable. Sulcalis well developed. Anterior plica superior weak, not connected to the lunella complex. Lunella dorsal-dorsolateral to dorsolateral, short and broad, mostly fused to the basalis. Subclaustralis weak or absent, sulcalis well developed. Anterior plica superior not connected to the lunella complex.
Dimensions
(in mm). Hs: 16.0-20.6 (holotype 19.0), Ws: 4.8-5.4 mm.
Type locality.
Greece, Western Macedonia, 2.3 km before Aetia along the Aetia to Anavrita road, along the path to the Nymphoon Cave, W slope, 1000 m.
Type
material.
Type locality, leg. Gittenberger, Uit de Weerd, holotype (RMNH 94942), paratypes (RMNH 94941/21); same locality, leg. Gittenberger, Maassen, 23.v.2001, paratypes (RMNH 82016/19, SMF 331780/3, NMBE 534891/3); hill 1.75 km E of Aetia, E slope, 940 m, paratypes (RMNH 82017/7).
Other material.
Type locality, 990 m,
40.0741°N
,
21.2017°E
, leg. ZE, ZF, JG, 22.vi.2013 (HNHM 99593).
Distribution.
Western Macedonia (Greece). Known only from the type locality (Fig. 20).