A new freshwater snail genus (Hydrobiidae, Gastropoda) from Montenegro, with a discussion on gastropod diversity and endemism in Skadar Lake
Author
Pesic, Vladimir
Author
Gloeer, Peter
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ZooKeys
2013
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.281.4409
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.281.4409
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Lymnaea raphidia (Bourguignat, 1860)
Fig. 4B
New records.
Montenegro: Skadar Lake, sublacustrine spring
Karuc
,
42°21'30.84"N
,
19°06'23.03"E
, 10 m asl.
Pesic
; Skadar Lake,
Bozaj
, pool near spring Vitoja,
42°19'30"N
,
19°21'47"E
, 8 m asl.
Pesic
Remarks.
This species was a long time considered as subspecies of
Lymnaea stagnalis
(Linnaeus, 1758). From the latter species,
Lymnaea raphidia
can be easily distinguished by much slimmer spire (Fig. 4b). The preliminary phylogeographic study (
Vinarski et al. 2012
) shows that populations from Albania and Italy attributed to
Lymnaea raphidia
form a separate clade, distinct from the two other sister clades which corresponds to
Lymnaea stagnalis
and
Lymnaea fragilis
, respectively.
A. and P.
Reischuetz
(
2009
) mentioned
Lymnaea raphidia
(as
Lymnaea stagnalis raphidia
) from the Montenegrian (Virpazar) and Albanian (Shiroke) part of Skadar Lake.
Figure 4. a Dry old stillwater channel near the River
Crnojevica
(September, 2012), sampling site of
Bithynia montenegrina
(Wohlberedt, 1901) b
Lymnaea raphidia
(Bourguignat, 1860) from
Bozaj
, Montenegro.