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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2016
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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 laxa errans
Eross
& Szekeres, 2006
Fig. 21E
Montenegrina laxa errans
Eross
& Szekeres, 2006 in
Eross
et al. 2006
: 198, fig. 20. -
Nordsieck 2009
: 73.
Diagnosis.
Shell slender, medium to large, yellowish-corneous. Lower whorls smooth, upper ones finely striate. Neck inflexed, striate. Basal and peripheral crests weak. Peristome angular, with somewhat swollen margin. Lamellae superior and spiralis do not overlap. Subcolumellaris and clausilium plate not visible through the aperture. Lunella lateral to ventrolateral, basalis strong. Subclaustralis short, sulcalis residual or absent. Anterior plica superior long, starts diverging from, then turns parallel to the plica principalis. It is not connected to the lunella complex.
Dimensions
(in mm). Hs: 16.0-19.9 (holotype 19.9), Ws: 3.6-4.3 (holotype 4.0).
Type locality.
Albania, Pogradec District,
Cervenake
, 6 km from the Lin to Pogradec road toward the TV transmission tower, 1150 m,
40.9444°N
,
20.6109°E
.
Type material.
Type locality, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 2.vii.2003, holotype (HNHM 94874), paratypes (NHMUK 20050226, HNC 63190, HNHM 94875/66, NHMW 103287, RMNH 100314, SMF 328091, NMBE 22599/3).
Other material.
Type locality, leg. ZE, ZF, JG, 29.vi.2013 (HNHM 99631); 4 km SW of
Bishnice
, Shkemb i Qytetit, 1140 m,
40.9210°N
,
20.4491°E
, leg. ZF, TN, EM, 12.iv.2014 (HNHM 98950); Librazhd District, Stravaj, 790 m,
41.0042°N
,
20.4343°E
, leg. ZF, TN, EM, 12.iv.2014 (HNHM 98952);
Korce
District, NE of
Strelce
, limestone gorge of the Lumi i
Verbes
at the foot of the
Shkemb
i
Selces
, 990 m,
40.7480°N
,
20.5219°E
, leg. ZF, JG, 30.vi.2013 (NHMW 110430/MN/0103); same locality, leg. ZB, CN, DP, 23.v.2007 (HNHM 99632).
Distribution.
This is the southernmost
Montenegrina laxa
subspecies, found sporadically around the
Moker
Mts in southeastern Albania (Fig. 23).