Montenegrina skipetarica konitsae Nordsieck, 1972

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 : 87

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina skipetarica konitsae Nordsieck, 1972 Fig. 30B

Montenegrina irmengardis konitsae Nordsieck, 1972: 35, plate 4, fig. 35. - Zilch 1981: 129, plate 15, fig. 41.

Montenegrina skipetarica konitsae - Nordsieck 2009: 73.

Diagnosis.

Shell large, tumid, light reddish-brown with whitish suture. All whorls smooth. Neck weakly inflexed, finely and densely costate. Basal crest well recognizable, peripheral crest weak. Peristome attached, ovoid, with simple margin. Lamellae superior and spiralis overlap. In front view lamella inferior well emerged, subcolumellaris mostly visible. Lunella dorsolateral, fused to the short basalis. Subclaustralis is short, sulcalis weak. Anterior plica superior short and weak, mostly separate from the lunella complex.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 16.4-23.3 (holotype 21.8), Ws: 5.0-6.2 (holotype 5.8 mm).

Type locality.

Greece, Epirus, Konitsa.

Type material.

Type locality, leg. Nordsieck, 22.viii.1971, holotype (SMF 221044), paratypes (SMF 221045, SMNS-N 5467).

Other material.

Type locality, leg. Fauer, 11.viii.1972 (marked as paratypes on the NMBE label, but probably not type materaial) (NMBE 535008/6, NHMW-K 65356/5); Konitsa, valley of the Aoos River at the old bridge, 440 m, 40.0355°N, 20.7469°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JG, 26.vi.2013 (HNHM 99527); near the spring at Stomio Monastery, leg. HS, 26.vi.1988 (NHMW 102871/3); Epirus, Sarantaporos Gorge near the Exochi to Agia Varvara road, 530 m, 40.1102°N, 20.7203°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JG, 26.vi.2013 (HNHM 99528); Gamila (= Tymfi) Mts, W side, leg. HS, 27.vi.1988 (NHMW 102869/2); Epirus, NW of Konitsa, gorge of the Topolca Stream, 600 m, 40.0706°N, 20.7608°E, leg. Fauer, PS, 26.ix.1989 (NMBE).

Distribution.

Tymfi Mts in Epirus, northwestern Greece. Known from a few localities around Konitsa, from the northern and western sides of the Tymfi Mts (catchment area of the Aoos River), and from the gorge of the Sarantaporos River, ca. 8 km northwest of Konitsa (Fig. 31A).