Virpazaria (Virpazaria) adrianae Gittenberger 1969
Creators: name: Fehér, Zoltán
name: Deli, Tamás
name: Erőss, Zoltán P.
name: Lika, Romilda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Spelaeodiscidae
Virpazaria
Virpazaria adrianae

description: Virpazaria (Virpazaria) adrianae Gittenberger, 1969
Fig. 1 A–F
Virpazaria (Virpazaria) adrianae Gittenberger, 1969: 298–299, fig. 4.
Virpazaria (Virpazaria) adrianae – Gittenberger 1975: 268. — Welter-Schultes 2012: 211, unnumbered fig.
Diagnosis
Discoid, shouldered shell, barely raised spire, wide umbilicus. Aperture crescent-shaped, most of it but the sinus region covered by a parietal flap in frontal view. Three wide knobs at basal–palatal peristome.
Material examined
Holotype
MONTENEGRO • W of Virpazar, Velika Jama, at Mt. Soko near Dupilo; Dabović leg.; “ Trissexodon kuščeri ” [original label]; NHMW-E 57441.
Paratypes
MONTENEGRO •> 30 spec.; same collection data as for holotype; NHMW-E 57441 a • 1 spec.; same collection data as for holotype; SMF123347 • 2 spec.; same collection data as for holotype; RMNH 53303 • 1 spec.; same collection data as for holotype; NHMW-K 29619 • 2 spec.; same locality as holotype; Kuščer leg.; Apr.1936; SMF 53886.
Other material
MONTENEGRO • 6 spec.; “Grotte Grbočica” [Pećina Grbočica]; 10 Jul. 1936; Dabović leg.; [on label indicated as paratype]; NHMW-E 48634 • 3 spec.; “Grotte Grbočica” [Pećina Grbočica]; 10 Jul. 1936; Dabović leg.; [on label indicated as paratype]; NHMW-E 48092 • 1 spec.; Vrelo kod Jabukovog dola; Dabović leg.; [on label indicated as paratype]; NHMW-E 48486 • 3 spec.; [without locality]; “ Trissexodon montenegrina n. sp. Smmlg. Kuščer, Smmlg. Edlauer ”; ex. Kuščer; NHMW 79007 • many spec.; Sokopećina; ex. Edlauer; NHMW 79008 • 7 spec.; Pećina na ostrvu Vranjini [cave on Vranjina Island]; Kuščer leg.; NHMW 78990 • Pećina na ostrvu Vranjini [cave on Vranjina Island]; Kuščer leg.; NHMW-K 64035 • 3.5 km N of Virpazar, on road to Rijeka Crnojevića, Vidikovac Observation Point; 42.2547° N, 19.0896° E; 150 m alt.; 25 May 2015; T. Deli, Z. Erőss and Z. Fehér leg.; HNHM 103419 • W of Virpazar, 1.2 km from Dupilo, S side of Mt Tor; 42.2527° N, 19.0662° E; 85 m alt.; 20 Oct. 2017; T. Deli, Z. Erőss, A. Hunyadi and B. Páll-Gergely leg.; DT • W of Virpazar, 1.2 km from Dupilo, S side of Mt Tor; 42.2527° N, 19.0662° E; 85 m alt.; 20 Oct. 2017; T. Deli, Z. Erőss, A. Hunyadi and B. Páll-Gergely leg.; ER • NNW of Virpazar, 0.4 km W of Poseljani, on road to Rijeka Crnojevića; 42.3060° N, 19.0483° E; 130 m alt.; 20 Oct. 2017; T. Deli, Z. Erőss, A. Hunyadi and B. Páll-Gergely leg.; DT • NNW of Virpazar, 0.4 km W of Poseljani, on road to Rijeka Crnojevića; 42.3060° N, 19.0483° E; 130 m alt.; 20 Oct. 2017; T. Deli, Z. Erőss, A. Hunyadi and B. Páll-Gergely leg.; ER • Začir, Pečina u Pečkom Brdu, above village; 20 Jul. 1972; L. Pintér, P. Subai and A. Szigethy leg.; HNHM 72071 • Komarno, Jabukov Do Cave; 3 Jun. 1978; W.J.M. Maassen leg.; NMBE 539837.
Dimensions
H 1.6–1.9 mm; W 3.0– 3.5 mm.
Distribution
This is the most frequent species of the genus. Its range is northwest of Lake Skadar in Montenegro. The following locations are mentioned in the literature: Velika Jama near Dupilo, Pečina Grbočica near Trnovo, Pečina u Pečkom Brdu near Začir, Pečina Ostrin Vranjini northeast of Virpazar, Babotuša Spilja near Trnovo and Jabukov do Pečina near Komarno (Gittenberger 1969, 1975). Recently discovered new sites fall within the boundaries of the previously known range. All georeferenced records (and probably the non-georeferenced ones too) came from Lower Triassic limestone (Fig. 2).
description: Published as part of Fehér, Zoltán, Deli, Tamás, Erőss, Zoltán P. & Lika, Romilda, 2019, Taxonomic revision of the subterranean genus Virpazaria Gittenberger, 1969 (Gastropoda, Spelaeodiscidae), pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 558 on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.558, http://zenodo.org/record/3474974