Montenegrina fuchsi fuchsi Brandt, 1961

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 : 23-24

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina fuchsi fuchsi Brandt, 1961 Fig. 15B

Montenegrina (Heteroptycha) fuchsi Brandt, 1961: 2-3, plate 1, fig. 1.

Montenegrina fuchsi fuchsi - Zilch 1981: 128, plate 13, fig. 25. - Nordsieck 2009: 73.

Diagnosis.

Shell surface indistinctly wrinkled, neck densely costate. Peripheral crest very strong. Peristome detached, strongly projected, rounded to pear-shaped. Lamella subcolumellaris visible through the aperture. Plica principalis often fused to the superior. Lunella dorsal, sulcalis well developed.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 13.6-13.7, W: 2.9-3.0 (width of the penultimate whorl).

Type locality.

"An der Straße von Tepelene nach Korzyra" = Albania, valley of the Vjosë River between Kelcyrë and Tepelenë.

Type material.

Type locality, ex Käufel, ex Zilch, holotype (SMF 163939); Type locality, leg. Fuchs, 1936, paratypes (NHMW-K 4491/3, NMBE 9825/2, ZMH 113581/3).

Other material.

Albania, right bank of the Vjosë at the bridge along the Tepelenë to Kelcyrë road, leg. Fuchs, 1936 (NHMW-K 47960, NHMW-K 32317, NHMW-K 48293, NHMW 21443, ZSM 20150454); "Shendeli bei Tepelenë, 1000 m ", leg. Fuchs (NHMW-K 3238, NHMW-K 48292); Tepelenë District, 7 km W of Këlcyre, near the bridge at the Peshtan junction, 170 m, 40.2961°N, 20.1076°E, leg. ZE, ZF, 6.vii.1996 (HNHM 86048); same locality, leg. ZE, ZF, KK, 13.iv.2001 (HNHM 85949), same locality, leg. PJ, TK, DM, GP, 14.x.2013 (HNHM 99563); same locality, leg. DA, ZE, ZF, JG, 29.vi.2014 (HNHM 99333, NHMW 110430/MN/0036).

Distribution.

Southern part of the Mt. Shëndel in southern Albania.

Most of the museum lots of this taxon are from the valley of the Vjosë River, west of Kelcyrë, at the foot of the Mt. Shëndel. All of these are probably from the same locality, near the bridge to Peshtan. However, the record by Fuchs ("Shendeli bei Tepelene, 1000 m") indicates a presumably wider distribution in the Shëndel, north of the type locality (Fig. 16).

Remarks.

Franz Käufel apparently intended to describe this as a new species, and started to distribute material as types. The HNMW 21443 lot contains a handwritten label from Käufel with the name fuchsi , and the indication “Paratypen”. But Käufel’s manuscript has never been published and this taxon was formally described only by Brandt in 1961. Therefore, only the lots designated in Brandt’s (1961) description are considered type material.