Montenegrina skipetarica flava Eross & Szekeres, 2006

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 : 85

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina skipetarica flava Eross & Szekeres, 2006 Fig. 30J

Montenegrina irmengardis flava Erőss & Szekeres, 2006 in Erőss et al. 2006: 192, fig. 12.

Montenegrina skipetarica flava - Nordsieck 2009: 73.

Diagnosis.

Shell medium to large, light yellowish-brown. Whorls smooth. Neck weakly inflexed, finely and densely wrinkled-costate. Basal crest well recognizable, peripheral crest weak. Peristome attached, ovoid, with somewhat swollen, reflexed margin. Lamellae superior and spiralis long overlap. In front view lamella inferior well emerged, broadly-bent subcolumellaris not or only barely visible. Lunella dorsolateral, connected to the strong basalis. Subclaustralis well developed, sulcalis weak. Anterior plica superior frequently connected to the lunella complex.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 17.7-20.9 (holotype 18.8), Ws: 4.1-4.7 (4.6 mm).

Type locality.

Albania, Korçë District, gorge of the Lumi i Devollit at the Gjinikas junction, 25 km W of Maliq, along the Korçë to Gramsh road, 750 m, 40.6921°N, 20.5003°E.

Type material.

Type locality, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 4.vii.2003, holotype (HNHM 94853), paratypes (NHMUK 20050221, HNC 63185, HNHM 94854/26, NHMW 103280, RMNH 100309, SMF 328084).

Other material.

Type locality, leg. PJ, TK, DM, GP, 16.x.2013 (HNHM 99544); same locality, leg. DA, ZE, ZF, JG, 30.vi.2013 (HNHM 99545, NHMW 110430/MN/0033).

Distribution.

Southern parts of the Mokër Mts in southern Albania. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 31A).