Montenegrina attemsi attemsi (Wagner, 1914)

Feher, Zoltan & Szekeres, Miklos, 2016, Taxonomic revision of the rock-dwelling door snail genus Montenegrina Boettger, 1877 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Clausiliidae), ZooKeys 599, pp. 1-137 : 9-10

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina attemsi attemsi (Wagner, 1914) Fig. 11B

Delima (Delima) attemsi Wagner, 1914 in Sturany and Wagner 1915: 73-74, plate 16, fig. 92.

Delima (Albanodelima) attemsi - Wagner 1924: 120.

Montenegrina janinensis attemsi - Nordsieck 1974: 151, plate 5, fig. 28. - Zilch 1981: 129. - Nordsieck 2009: 75.

Diagnosis.

Neck striate to striate-costate. Basal crest strong, peripheral crest weak. In front view lamella inferior weakly emerged, broadly-bent subcolumellaris mostly visible. Basalis short, subclaustralis weak. Anterior plica superior mostly present.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 12.0-14.8, Ws: 3.0-3.5 ( Nordsieck 1974).

Type locality.

"Treska bei Üsküb” = Macedonia, Matka Gorge near Skopje.

Type material.

Type locality, leg. Apfelbeck, ex Oberwimmer [10525], syntypes (NHMW 65491/3); same locality, ex Wagner, ex Käufel, syntypes (NHMW-E 9407/3); same locality, ex Käufel, syntypes (NHMW-K 9366/4); same locality, ex Wagner, ex Fuchs, ex Rušnov,? syntypes (NHMW 70410/3); same locality, leg. Apfelbeck, ex Wagner, ex Brandt, syntype (SMF 167038/1); same locality, ex Käufel, ex Jaeckel, syntype (SMF 201603).

Other material.

Macedonia, gorge of the Treska near Skopje, leg. Penther, 11.v.1918 (NHMW 52313); Skopje District, Matka Gorge near the Sv. Andreja Church, 300 m, 41.9610°N, 21.2943°E, leg. ZE, ZF, AH, 10.iv.2004. (HNHM 94429); same locality, leg, TD, 2008. (HNHM 99519).

Distribution.

The subspecies is known only from the valley of the Treska River (Matka Gorge) in northwestern Macedonia (Fig. 12).

Remarks.

Although the description was formally published in Sturany and Wagner (1915), a reprint of the paper had already been printed and circulated in 1914, and the authorship of the taxon has been unequivocally attributed to Wagner.