PešićVladimirGlöerPeterA new freshwater snail genus (Hydrobiidae, Gastropoda) from Montenegro, with a discussion on gastropod diversity and endemism in Skadar LakeZookeys28320132013281699010.3897/zookeys.281.4409 Lymnaea raphidia http://species-id.net/wiki/Lymnaea_raphidia (Bourguignat, 1860)Fig. 4BNew 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.

a Dry old stillwater channel near the River Crnojevića (September, 2012), sampling site of Bithynia montenegrina (Wohlberedt, 1901) b Lymnaea raphidia (Bourguignat, 1860) from Božaj, Montenegro.

VinarskiMVSchniebsKGlöerPHundsdoerferAK (2012) Preliminary phylogeography of Lymnaea stagnalis: are there cryptic species of the great pond snail? XI International Congress on Medical and Applied Malacology, 66 p.ReischützAReischützNReischützPL (2008) Ein Nachtrag zur Kenntnis der Bithynia-Arten von Montenegro (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Bythiniidae).Nachrichtenblatt der Ersten Vorarlberger Malakologischen Gesellschaft 15: 41-43.