Paladilhiopsis wohlberedti, Grego, Jozef, Gloeer, Peter, Eross, Zoltan Peter & Feher, Zoltan, 2017

Grego, Jozef, Gloeer, Peter, Eross, Zoltan Peter & Feher, Zoltan, 2017, Six new subterranean freshwater gastropod species from northern Albania and some new records from Albania and Kosovo (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Moitessieriidae and Hydrobiidae), Subterranean Biology 23, pp. 85-107 : 89-90

Paladilhiopsis wohlberedti sp. n. Figs 13-14

Diagnosis.

Paladilhiopsis wohlberedti sp. n. differs from P. prekalensis sp. n. (Albania, Prekal), P. lozeki sp. n. (Albania, Shoshan) and P. szekeresi sp. n. (sympatric) by its more conical shell and proportinonately much larger body whorl. The new species can be compared by shell shape to Paladilhiopsis grobbeni Kuščer, 1928 (Slovenia, Sevnica), from which it differs by a more robust shell, more tumid whorls, blunter apex and by its differently positioned and shaped aperture. From Paladilhiopsis szarowskae it differs by its more conical shape, less (4 ½) and more tumid whorls, the more prominent body whorl and the larger aperture. Montenegrospeum bogici (Montenegro, Podgorica) has a more slender shell with more prominent and proportionally larger aperture situated more to the left of the columellar axis compared to the new species.

Type

locality.

Albania, Malësia district, Tamarë, a spring above the trout farm at the right side of valley, north of the village, 360 m, 42.4745°N; 19.5693°E (Fig. 1C).

Type

material.

Holotype: Type locality, leg. Erőss, Fehér, Grego, Szekeres, 27.06.2016 (HNHM 100171), Paratypes: same data (NHMW 111658/5; HNHM 100172/5; further 1 specimen in coll. Glöer and 14 specimens in coll. Grego).

Measurements.

H 2.0 mm; W 1.0 mm; WB 0.9 mm; HA/H- 0.39, HB/H 0.33 (holotype).

Etymology.

Named after Otto Wohlberedt (Triebes, Thüringen), who within his large work (1909) about Montenegro and northern Albania Mollusca (and Isopoda , Chilopoda, Diplopoda) contributed much to the knowledge of Invertebrate fauna of the Balkan peninsula.

Description.

The whitish smooth shell has 4 ½ slightly tumid whorls with a semi-deep suture and a blunt apex. The shell shape is elongate-conoid with proportionally large body whorl. The oval aperture does not deviate from the conoid shell peripheral outline and is reflected, attached to the body whorl by its upper left side and extends slightly over the columellar axis on ts left side. The umbilicus is narrow and deep. On the lateral view, the labral peristome is straight and deviates backward by ca 8 degrees by the plane of columella.

Habitat.

See P. szekeresi sp. n.

Distribution.

Only known from the type locality, where it occurs syntopicaly with P. szekeresi sp. n.