Montenegrina skipetarica pindica Nordsieck, 1988

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 : 89

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina skipetarica pindica Nordsieck, 1988 Fig. 30M

Montenegrina dofleini pindica Nordsieck, 1988: 199, fig. 3. - Nordsieck 2009: 74.

Diagnosis.

Shell medium, light corneous. Lower whorls smooth, apical ones finely striate. Neck barely inflexed, striate. Basal crest weak, peripheral crest not recognizable. Peristome attached, with swollen margin. Lamellae superior and spiralis do not overlap. In front view lamella inferior moderately emerged, subcolumellaris mostly visible. Lunella dorsolateral, connected to the short basalis. Subclaustralis short, sulcalis weak. Anterior plica superior frequently connected to lunella complex.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 13.9-16.5 (holotype 15.6), Ws: 3.8-4.3 (holotype 4.3).

Type locality.

Greece, Epirus, Gramos Mts, southeastern slope of the Mt. Souflika, ca. 1700 m.

Type material.

Type locality, leg. HS, vi.1985, holotype (NHMW 84024a), paratypes (NHMW 84024/3); ridge NNW of the Epano Arena, ca. 2000 m, leg. HS, 4.vii.1985, paratypes (NHMW 84025/9).

Other material.

Greece, Epirus, Gramos Mts, W of the Epano Arena summit, 2000 m, 40.3090°N, 20.8981°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JG, 27.vi.2013 (HNHM 99524); NW of the Epano Arena summit, 2060 m, 40.3115°N, 20.8986°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JG, 27.vi.2013 (HNHM 99525); ridge N of the Epano Arena summit, 2120 m, 40.3131°N, 20.8995°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JG, 27.vi.2013 (HNHM 99526).

Distribution.

Gramos Mts in northwestern Greece. Known from the Epano Arena area where it is common. Sympatric, and in some sites syntopic, with the much rarer Montenegrina grammica grammica (Fig. 31A).