Chondrina farinesii ( Des Moulins, 1835 )

Kokshoorn, Bas & Gittenberger, Edmund, 2010, Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: New synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) 2539, Zootaxa 2539 (1), pp. 1-62 : 31

Chondrina farinesii ( Des Moulins, 1835) (pl. 9 figs A–C)

? Chondrina (Modicella) jumillensis unidentata Altimira, 1960: 12 (valid after ICZN Article 45.6.4.). Spain, Tarragona,

Llaveria (= 6.8 km SSE Falset), entrance to the Cueva del Ramé; UTM CF1850.

Type series: RMNH 109859 / lectotype (design. nov.) (pl. 9 fig. B), 109860/ 9 paralectotypes .

Notes.—In a rather unsatisfactory way, on the basis of conchological characters that have shown to be misleading in many cases, but without a better alternative, we provisionally combine a group of populations of snails with similar shells under the heading of C. farinesii . In the phylogenetic reconstruction (see figure 4) this is a paraphyletic group.

The type locality of Altimira’s C. unidentata is situated within the range of C. dertosensis , but shells of the former taxon have a less clearly thickened apertural lip and an aperture without any teeth or with an obsolete columellaris and an equally inconspicuous parietalis, and are clearly most similar to regular C. farinesii as known from the type locality La Preste and other localities in southern France and NE Spain. Apparently, this nominal taxon was overlooked by Gittenberger (1973).