Montenegrospeum bogici ( Pesic & Gloeer , 2012)

Falniowski, Andrzej, Lewarne, Brian, Rysiewska, Aleksandra, Osikowski, Artur & Hofman, Sebastian, 2021, Crenobiont, stygophile and stygobiont molluscs in the hydrographic area of the Trebisnjica River Basin, ZooKeys 1047, pp. 61-89 : 61

Montenegrospeum bogici ( Pesic & Gloeer, 2012)

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GenBank no.

COI: MZ266648-MZ266650

Remarks.

Pešić and Glöer (2012) described a new species of Bythiospeum Bourguignat, 1882: B. bogici Pešić & Glöer, 2012 from underground waters of Vrelo “Taban”, in central Montenegro. Their description was based on empty shells. Later they ( Pešić and Glöer 2013) collected live specimens, and described the lack of eyes and pigment and the penis with a lobe at its medial part. They considered B. bogici as belonging to a new genus: Montenegrospeum Pešić & Glöer, 2013. Later, Falniowski et al. (2014) demonstrated with molecular data that Montenegrospeum belongs to the Hydrobiidae , not Moitessieriidae , despite striking similarity of the shell between this snail and e.g., Iglica Wagner, 1927. Numerous live specimens of this species were pumped from interstitial habitats at the localities 1, 7 and 21 (Fig. 4 ).

Figures

Figure 4. Distribution of the studied taxa. Localities' numbers correspond to Table 1.

Figure 7. Shells of the studied gastropods: A-C Kerkia briani D-K Montenegrospeum bogici (localities: D-F - 1, G, H - 7, I - 13, J - 14, K - 21) L-O Litthabitella chilodia (localities: L, M - 17, N-O - 8). Scale bars: 1 mm.