Montenegrina grammica grammica 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 : 28

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina grammica grammica Nordsieck, 1988 Fig. 15F

Montenegrina janinensis grammica Nordsieck, 1988: 198-199, fig. 2. - Nordsieck 2009: 75.

Diagnosis.

Shell light corneous. Lower whorls smooth to indistinctly costate-weinkled, upper ones with strong ribs. Neck smooth to weakly wrinkled, with weak basal crest. Peristome rounded. Lamellae superior and spiralis do not overlap. In front view lamella inferior barely emerged, subcolumellaris mostly not visible. Lunella dorsolateral. Basalis absent or residual and fused to the lunella. Anterior plica superior mostly absent, rarely weak and separate from the lunella complex.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 9.8-10.3 (holotype 9.8), Ws: 2.9-3.4 (holotype 3.1).

Type locality.

Greece, Gramos Mts, mountain ridge NNW of the Epano Arena, ca. 2000 m.

Type material.

Type locality, leg. HS, 3.vii.1986, holotype (NHMW 84026), paratypes (NHMW 84027/8).

Other material.

Greece, Gramos Mts, W of Epano Arena summit, 2000 m, 40.3090°N, 20.8981°E, leg. ZE, ZF, JG, 27.vi.2013 (HNHM 99628).

Distribution.

Gramos Mts in northwestern Greece. Known only form the northern side of the Epano Arena. In that area it lives syntopically with the more frequent and wider distributed Montenegrina skipetarica pindica Nordsieck, 1988 (Fig. 17).