Montenegrospeum bogici (Pesic & Gloeer, 2012)

Fig. 7D-K

GenBank no.

COI: MZ266648-MZ266650

Remarks.

Pešić and Glöer (2012) described a new species of Bythiospeum Bourguignat, 1882: B. bogici Pešić & Glöer, 2012 from underground waters of Vrelo “Taban”, in central Montenegro. Their description was based on empty shells. Later they ( Pešić and Glöer 2013) collected live specimens, and described the lack of eyes and pigment and the penis with a lobe at its medial part. They considered B. bogici as belonging to a new genus: Montenegrospeum Pešić & Glöer, 2013. Later, Falniowski et al. (2014) demonstrated with molecular data that Montenegrospeum belongs to the Hydrobiidae, not Moitessieriidae, despite striking similarity of the shell between this snail and e.g., Iglica Wagner, 1927. Numerous live specimens of this species were pumped from interstitial habitats at the localities 1, 7 and 21 (Fig. 4).