Chondrina granatensis Alonso, 1974

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 : 34

Chondrina granatensis Alonso, 1974 (pl. 11 fig. B)

Chondrina farinesii granatensis Alonso, 1974: 87 , pls 1, 2; 1977: 271, fig. 1 (lectotype).

Notes.— Chondrina granatensis was originally described as a subspecies of C. farinesii from the Sierra Harana (= Arana), 18 km NNE Granada centre (UTM VG5432), and two places in the Sierra Elvira, 12 km NW Granada centre (UTM VG3621, 3921) ( Alonso 1974). By the selection of a lectotype ( Alonso 1977), the surroudings of the Cueva del Agua in the Sierra Harana, at 1760 m altitude, became the type locality. Three paralectotypes from there are slender fusiform shells, with rather prominent, more or less regularly arranged riblets. They have five prominent, apertural teeth, without any more obsolete ones.

A sample collected in the province of Jaén, 13 km S of Cazorla (UTM WG0078) may belong to a polytypic C. granatensis . The shells are rather similar to the paralectotypes of C. granatensis in shape and sculpture, but clearly different in the apertural teeth. Only the columellaris is always present and rather prominent; it is often accompanied by an infracolumellaris denticle. The other teeth are rather obsolete or lacking completely. In the figured shell (pl. 11, fig. C) the palatal teeth are more conspicuous than usual.