Montenegrina helvola ornata Eross & Szekeres, 1999

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 : 34-35

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina helvola ornata Eross & Szekeres, 1999 Fig. 15L

Montenegrina helvola ornata Erőss & Szekeres, 1999 in Erőss et al. 1999: 450-451, fig. 5. - Nordsieck 2009: 73.

Montenegrina n. sp. - Dhora and Welter-Schultes 1999: 17.

Montenegrina helvola carinata - Nordsieck 2009: 77, plate 2, figs 6-7.

Diagnosis.

Shell small to medium. All whorls indistinctly wrinkled-costate. Neck wrinkled-costate. Peristome pear-shaped. In front view lamella inferior barely emerged. Lunella lateral-ventrolateral, fused to the short basalis. Subclaustralis residual, sulcalis residual or absent. Anterior plica superior long. Clausilium plate not visible through the aperture.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 13.2-16.9 (holotype 15.7), Ws: 3.0-3.9 (holotype 3.3).

Type locality.

Albania, Elbasan District, Petresh (= 5 km SSE of Graçen), along the Tiranë to Elbasan road, S of the village, 440 m, 41.1030°N, 20.0064°E.

Type material.

Type locality, leg. ZE, 19.viii.1993, holotype (HNHM 70838), paratypes (HNHM 70839/2, NHMW 100079/2, SMF 312507/2, NMBE 534906/1, NMBE 22594/1).

Other material.

Type locality, leg. ZF, TK, DM, 22.vi.2012 (HNHM 99617); "Elbasan Paß”, leg. Jaeckel (NHMW-K 57868/1, NHMW-K 47293/1); 1 km SE of Shkamë (near Mollas), W side of the Mt. Sulovë, 480 m, 40.9280°N, 20.0305°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 29.vi.2003 (HNHM 94904).

Distribution.

Krabba and Sulovë Mts in central Albania. The type locality is in the southern part of the Krraba Mountain, and presumably the site “Elbassan-paß, 800 m" given by Jaeckel and Schmidt (1961) can be in the vicinity. We found this subspecies in the Mt. Sulovë, at ca. 20 km from the type locality, and isolated from it by a wide, non-rocky flysch zone. Some other locality records in the literature from the Mt. Sulovë ( Dhora and Welter-Schultes 1999, Nordsieck 2009) presumably also correspond to this taxon (Fig. 18).