Montenegrina skipetarica skipetarica ( Soos , 1924)

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 : 81

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina skipetarica skipetarica ( Soos, 1924) Fig. 30E

Clausilia (Delima) skipetarica Soós, 1924: 181-183, figs 2 (shell), 3 (genital anatomy).

Delima (Albanodelima) skipetarica - Wagner 1924: 120.

Montenegrina perstriata skipetarica - Erőss et al. 2006: 203, fig. 26. - Nordsieck 2009: 73, plate 1, fig. 1.

Diagnosis.

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

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 18.5-23.4, Ws: 5.6-6.8 (topotypes HNHM 99521).

Type locality.

"Ura i Lopez" = Albania, Kukës District, 2.5 km N of Bushtricë along the Kukës to Peshkopi road, Ura e Lapavës at the gorge of the Përroi i Vaut të Çajës, 600 m.

Type material.

The original series, collected by Csiki, were destroyed in 1956 by a fire at the HNHM ( Erőss et al. 2006).

Other material.

Type locality, 41.8949°N, 20.4169°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 25.vi.2003 (HNHM 93813); type locality, leg. LD, ZE, ZF, AH, DM, 26.vi.2007 (HNHM 99521); Mat District, 3 km W of the Qafa e Murrës, Shkëmb i Skanderbeut, gorge of the Lumi i Varoshit, 970 m, 41.6465°N, 20.1901°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 26.vi.2003 (HNHM 94914); same locality, leg. TD, ZE, ZF, DM, 11.x.2005 (HNHM 96806); same locality, leg. ZE, ZF, AH, DM, 13.iv.2006 (HNHM 96809); same locality, leg. ZB, ZF, DM, DP, ZU, 18.v.2010 (HNHM 99522); Mat District, 5 km toward Fushë-Lurë from the Peshkopi to Burrel road, upper valley of the Lumi i Varoshit, 1360 m, 41.6651°N, 20.2083°E, leg. ZF, DM, ZU, 18.v.2010 (HNHM 99523); 5 km E of Lis along the Peshkopi to Burrel road, 850 m, 41.6361°N, 20.1228°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JK, DM, 26.vi.2003 (HNHM 94842); same locality, leg. ZE, ZF, AH, DM, 13.iv.2006 (HNHM 96815); W of the Shkëmb i Skanderbeut, 2 km from the Peshkopi to Burrel road toward Fushë-Lurë, 1180 m, 41.6502°N, 20.1861°E, leg. ZE, ZF, AH, DM, 13.iv.2006 (HNHM 96807).

Distribution.

Lura-Dejë mountain group and the Korab Mts in northern Albania. Most of the known occurrences are in the southern part of the Lura-Dejë mountain group. The type locality, however, is 30-40 km northeast of this area, and an isolated occurrence is in the northwestern part of the Korab Mts (Fig. 31B).

Remarks.

Soós’ paper (1924) describing Montenegrina perstriata skipetarica is a chapter of a larger study assessing the results of Csiki’s zoological explorations in northern Albania. Whereas the complete volume was published only in 1940, the chapter written by Soós had already been printed and circulated in 1924. Therefore, in the case of skipetarica this earlier date is to be regarded as the year of description ( Erőss et al. 2006).