Lymnaea raphidia (Bourguignat, 1860)

Pesic, Vladimir & Gloeer, Peter, 2013, A new freshwater snail genus (Hydrobiidae, Gastropoda) from Montenegro, with a discussion on gastropod diversity and endemism in Skadar Lake, ZooKeys 281, pp. 69-90 : 75

Lymnaea raphidia (Bourguignat, 1860) Fig. 4B

New records.

Montenegro: Skadar Lake, sublacustrine spring Karuč, 42°21'30.84"N, 19°06'23.03"E, 10 m asl. Pešić; Skadar Lake, Božaj, pool near spring Vitoja, 42°19'30"N, 19°21'47"E, 8 m asl. Pešić

Remarks.

This species was a long time considered as subspecies of Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus, 1758). From the latter species, Lymnaea raphidia can be easily distinguished by much slimmer spire (Fig. 4b). The preliminary phylogeographic study ( Vinarski et al. 2012) shows that populations from Albania and Italy attributed to Lymnaea raphidia form a separate clade, distinct from the two other sister clades which corresponds to Lymnaea stagnalis and Lymnaea fragilis , respectively.

A. and P. Reischütz ( 2009) mentioned Lymnaea raphidia (as Lymnaea stagnalis raphidia ) from the Montenegrian (Virpazar) and Albanian (Shiroke) part of Skadar Lake.