Montenegrina rugilabris welterschultesi Feher & Szekeres, 1999

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 : 79-80

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Clausiliidae

Montenegrina rugilabris welterschultesi Feher & Szekeres, 1999 Fig. 28G

Montenegrina irmengardis welterschultesi Fehér & Szekeres, 1999 in Erőss et al. 1999: 450, fig. 6.

Montenegrina skipetarica welterschultesi - Nordsieck 2009: 73.

Diagnosis.

Shell medium to large, purplish-brown with whitish suture. All whorls smooth, lower ones separated by whitish suture. Neck barely inflexed, densely striate. Basal and peripheral crests weak. Peristome attached, with somewhat swollen margin. Lamellae superior and spiralis long overlap. In front view lamella inferior moderately emerged, subcolumellaris mostly hidden visible. Lunella dorsal-dorsolateral, fused to the basalis. Subclaustralis short. Anterior plica superior separate from the lunella complex.

Dimensions

(in mm). Hs: 16.0-22.7 (holotype 22.1), Ws: 4.0-5.0 (holotype 4.8).

Type locality.

Albania, Përmet District, Petran, at the confluence of the Vjosë and Lengaricë Rivers, 300 m, 40.2094°N, 20.4126°E.

Type material.

Type locality, leg. ZE, ZF, 7.vii.1996, holotype (HNHM 70840), paratypes (HNHM 70841/7, NHMW 100080/2, SMF 312508/2, NMBE 535015/1, NMBE 22596/2).

Other material.

Type locality, leg. ZE, ZF, KK, 13.iv.2001 (HNHM 86127); same locality, leg. ZF, LT, 18.viii.2007 (HNHM 99556); same locality, leg. PJ, TK, DM, GP, 13.x.2012 (HNHM 99557); Përmet District, Nemerçkë Mts, gorge ca. 2 km SW of Draçovë, 450 m, 40.1226°N, 20.4805°E, leg. DA, ZE, ZF, JG, 29.vi.2014 (HNHM 99558, NHMW 110430/MN/0035).

Distribution.

Nemerçkë Mts in southern Albania. Welter-Schultes (1996) found this taxon 6 km southeast of Përmët, in the vicinity of the type locality. Recently another population has been found near Draçovë, indicating that this taxon might be wider distributed in the Nemerçkë Mts (Fig. 29).