Montenegrina skipetarica remota Feher & 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 : 91

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina skipetarica remota Feher & Szekeres, 2006 Fig. 30I

Montenegrina irmengardis remota Fehér & Szekeres, 2006 in Erőss et al. 2006: 192-194, fig. 13.

Montenegrina skipetarica remota - Nordsieck 2009: 73, plate 1, fig. 2.

Diagnosis.

Shell large, tumid, violet-brown with whitish suture. Lower whorls smooth, upper whorls finely costate. Neck not to barely inflexed, irregularly wrinkled-costare. Basal and peripheral crests weak. Peristome attached, ovoid to somewhat quadrangular, with simple margin. Lamellae superior and spiralis mostly do not overlap. In front view lamella inferior well emerged, broadly-bent subcolumellaris not visible. Lunella dorsal-dorsolateral, connected to the short basalis. Subclaustralis also short, sulcalis weak to residual. Anterior plica superior absent or week and separate from the lunella complex.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 18.0-23.1 (holotype 19.6), Ws: 4.7-5.6 (holotype 5.4).

Type locality.

Albania, gorge of the Mat River, 11 km W of the Ulëz junction, along the Burrel to Milot road, 100 m, 41.6919°N, 19.8318°E.

Type material.

Type locality, leg. ZE, ZF, 27.vi.2003, holotype (HNHM 94859), paratypes (HNHM 94860/6, NHMW 103281, SMF 328085); same locality, leg. ZF, 8.x.2004, paratypes (HNHM 94861/3).

Other material.

Type locality, leg. ZE, ZF, AH, DM, 14.iv.2006 (HNHM 96812); same locality, leg. ZF, TN, EM, 16.iv.2014 (HNHM 99021).

Distribution.

Lower valley of the Mat River. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 31B).