Six new subterranean freshwater gastropod species from northern Albania and some new records from Albania and Kosovo (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Moitessieriidae and Hydrobiidae)
Author
Grego, Jozef
Author
Gloeer, Peter
Author
Eross, Zoltan Peter
Author
Feher, Zoltan
text
Subterranean Biology
2017
23
85
107
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.23.14930
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.23.14930
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Paladilhiopsis wohlberedti
sp. n.
Figs 13-14
Diagnosis
.
Paladilhiopsis wohlberedti
sp. n. differs from
P. prekalensis
sp. n. (Albania, Prekal),
P. lozeki
sp. n. (Albania, Shoshan) and
P. szekeresi
sp. n. (sympatric) by its more conical shell and proportinonately much larger body whorl. The new species can be compared by shell shape to
Paladilhiopsis grobbeni
Kuscer
, 1928 (Slovenia, Sevnica), from which it differs by a more robust shell, more tumid whorls, blunter apex and by its differently positioned and shaped aperture. From
Paladilhiopsis szarowskae
it differs by its more conical shape, less (4
1/2
) and more tumid whorls, the more prominent body whorl and the larger aperture.
Montenegrospeum bogici
(Montenegro, Podgorica) has a more slender shell with more prominent and proportionally larger aperture situated more to the left of the columellar axis compared to the new species.
Type
locality.
Albania,
Malesia
district,
Tamare
, a spring above the trout farm at the right side of valley, north of the village, 360 m,
42.4745°N
;
19.5693°E
(Fig. 1C).
Type
material.
Holotype: Type locality, leg.
Eross
,
Feher
, Grego, Szekeres, 27.06.2016 (HNHM 100171), Paratypes: same data (NHMW 111658/5; HNHM 100172/5; further 1 specimen in coll.
Gloeer
and 14 specimens in coll. Grego).
Measurements.
H 2.0 mm; W 1.0 mm; WB 0.9 mm; HA/H- 0.39, HB/H 0.33 (holotype).
Etymology.
Named after Otto Wohlberedt (Triebes,
Thueringen
), who within his large work (1909) about Montenegro and northern Albania
Mollusca
(and
Isopoda
,
Chilopoda
,
Diplopoda
) contributed much to the knowledge of Invertebrate fauna of the Balkan peninsula.
Description.
The whitish smooth shell has 4
1/2
slightly tumid whorls with a semi-deep suture and a blunt apex. The shell shape is elongate-conoid with proportionally large body whorl. The oval aperture does not deviate from the conoid shell peripheral outline and is reflected, attached to the body whorl by its upper left side and extends slightly over the columellar axis on ts left side. The umbilicus is narrow and deep. On the lateral view, the labral peristome is straight and deviates backward by ca 8 degrees by the plane of columella.
Habitat.
See
P. szekeresi
sp. n.
Distribution.
Only known from the type locality, where it occurs syntopicaly with
P. szekeresi
sp. n.