Montenegrina laxa miraka Nordsieck, 1996

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 : 54

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina laxa miraka Nordsieck, 1996 Fig. 21I

Montenegrina laxa miraka Nordsieck, 1996: 8-9, plate 2, fig. 2. - Nordsieck 2009: 73.

Diagnosis.

Shell medium to large, yellowish-corneous. All whorls smooth. Neck inflexed, densely striate-costate. Basal and peripheral crests well recognizable. Peristome ovoid to somewhat angular, with simple to weakly swollen margin. Lamellae superior and spiralis long overlap. In front view lamella inferior mostly well emerged. Subcolumellaris and clausilium plate not visible through the aperture. Lunella ventrolateral-lateral to ventrolateral, basalis long. Subclaustralis shorter than the basalis, sulcalis residual or absent. Anterior plica superior very long, starts diverging from, then turns parallel or even converging to the principalis. It is not connected to the lunella complex.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 16.6-22.5 (holotype 22.1), Ws: 4.0-5.4 (holotype 5.1).

Type locality.

Albania, Librazhd District, Mirakë, 5 km W of Librazhd = 1 km NW Ura e Kamarës, S slope, 300 m.

Type material.

Type locality, leg. Welter-Schultes, 17.ix.1995, holotype (HNC 40580), paratypes (HNC 40577, SMNS-N 10305, NHMW 89037/2, SMF 311198/2).

Other material.

Albania, Mirakë, Ura e Kamarës, 190 m, 41.1634°N, 20.2301°E, leg. ZF, TK, DM, 22.vi.2012 (HNHM 99630); Mirakë, right bank of Lumi i Shkumbinit, 210 m, 41.1657°N, 20.2377°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 24.x.2002 (HNHM 91605); 1 km S of Lunik, along the Librazhd to Peshkopi road, 700 m, 41.2661°N, 20.3181°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 24.x.2002 (HNHM 94905); same locality, leg. ZF, TN, EM, 13.iv.2014 (HNHM 98964); E of Lunik, 750 m, 41.2768°N, 20.3352°E, leg. ZE, ZF, AH, DM, 11.iv.2006 (HNHM 96805); same locality, leg. ZF, TN, EM, 13.iv.2014 (HNHM 98969); Qukës-Shkumbin, above a quarry, 500 m, 41.0937°N, 20.4402°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 30.vi.2003 (HNHM 94902); 6 km W of Librazhd, 230 m, 41.1676°N, 20.2498°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 30.vi.2003 (HNHM 94897); Elbasan District, Mengli, small gorge near a quarry, 250 m, 41.1335°N, 20.1261°E, leg. ZF, TN, EM, 17.iv.2014 (HNHM 99046).

Distribution.

Çermenikë Mountain in central Albania. Known from a few localities around this mountain within a circle of 10-15 km radius around Librazhd (Fig. 23).