Albania
Among
the 27 species of flowering plants unique to Albania are Wulfenia baldaccii (PBase), Tulipa albanica (Guardian),
Petasites doerfleri
(NHM-Rijeka), Scilla albanica (flickr),
Gymnospermium shqipetarum
(Timbre), Thymus doerfleri (Wikimedia
Commons), Acantholimon albanicum (Hortipedia), Viola
raunsiensis (p. 4 of Botanica
Serbica pdf file), and Hypericum haplophylloides (Natura Tours).
A checklist of endemic plants is
available at (p. 5 of CIHEAM
pdf file).
Two recently described freshwater fish known solely from Albania are
the Osum Riffle Minnow Alburnoides
fangfangae (p. 5 of zin.ru
pdf file) and the Devoll Riffle Minnow Alburnoides devolli (p. 12 of zin.ru
pdf file).
Among
snails known
only from Albania are Montenegrina
ersekensis (AnimalBase),
Cochlostoma hoyeri
(AnimalBase), Gyralina nopcsai (AnimalBase),
and Helicigona zebiana
(AnimalBase). A checklist and
photos of Albanian molluscs can be found at (Francisco
Welter-Schultes).
Other invertebrates found nowhere else are an ermine moth Kessleria mixta
(fig. 3 at Internet
Archive), a scorpion Euscorpius
beroni (Scorpion
Files), a cell spider Harpactea
albanica (araneae), a harvestman Megabunus
pifkoi (Museu
Nacional UFRJ pdf file), a millipede Typhloiulus
beroni (MNHN),
and an endemic genus of amphipod crustacean Albanogammarus inguscioi
from a cave in the Mali Me Gropa mountains. Among cave
dwelling beetles are a round fungus beetle Ceuthophyes enormis
(NMNHS
pdf file), the ground beetles Albanotrechus
beroni (Internet Archive) and Dalmatoreicheia
maderi (p. 3 of NMNHS
pdf file), a cholevid beetle Albanodirus
trezziii (p. 4 of Univ.
Roma pdf file), and rove beetles Pseudamaurops albanicus
(Fauna
Europaea) from the Merdita Mountains and Pseudamaurops
muellerianus
(Fauna
Europaea) from Mount Tomor.
Albania is included in the Mediterranean Basin biodiversity hotspot (Biodiversity
Hotspots). Especially important for unique
freshwater species is Lake Ohrid (Ohrid),
one of the world's oldest lakes. A list of endemic plants and
animals
appears in
Albania's Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (p. 16 of CBD
pdf file).