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 okolensis okolensis Szekeres, 2006
Fig. 24D
Montenegrina apfelbecki okolensis
Szekeres, 2006 in
Eross
et al. 2006
: 186, fig. 5.
Montenegrina janinensis caesia
(partim) -
Nordsieck 2009
: 75.
Diagnosis.
Shell small to medium, elongate. In front view lamella inferior weakly emerged. Lunella dorsolateral. Sulcalis present. Anterior plica superior mostly absent. Clausilium plate partly visible through the aperture.
Dimensions
(in mm). Hs: 13.9-15.6 (holotype 13.9), Ws: 3.4-4.4 mm (holotype 3.4) (see type and other material).
Type locality.
"Theth valley" = Albania, Prokletije Mts, one of the mountains surrounding the Theth Valley (probably Mt.
Jezerce
).
Type material.
"Theth valley", ex
Nadai
, ex Holzinger, collected by an unknown mountaineer, vii.1996, holotype (HNHM 94839).
Other material.
Albania, Malesia District, above the N side of the Qafa e
Valbones
, along the footpath between Rragam and Theth, 1850 m,
42.4068°N
,
19.8122°E
, leg. TD, ZE, ZF, DM, 06.x.2005 (HNHM 99613); same locality, leg.
Adam
, GP, Somay, 5.ix.2005 (HNHM 99614).
Distribution.
In the central part of the Prokletije Mts in northern Albania.
The description of this subspecies was based on a single shell without precise locality and collector information. Accordingly, type locality was defined only as "Maja e Jezerces region" (
Eross
et al. 2006
). Recently the subspecies has been re-discovered near the Valbona Pass (Qafa e
Valbones
), south of the
Jezerce
Summit. Notably, along the Theth to Rragam footpath that crosses the main mountain ridge,
Montenegrina okolensis okolensis
could be found only around its highest point, near to and above the pass, between 1760 and 1850 m (see also:
Feher
and
Eross
2009
) (Fig. 26).
Figure 26. Distribution of
Montenegrina okolensis
and
Montenegrina prokletiana
sp. n.
Montenegrina okolensis caesia
(triangle);
Montenegrina okolensis okolensis
(inverted triangle),;
Montenegrina prokletiana prokletiana
ssp. n. (star);
Montenegrina prokletiana kovacsorum
ssp. n. (square).
Remarks.
Nordsieck (2009)
considered
okolensis
a synonym of
caesia
Feher
& Szekeres, 2006. New
okolensis
samples confirm the stability of its morphological differences from
caesia
, namely the elongate shell, deeper lunella and better developed sulcalis. Therefore we maintain it as a distinct subspecies.