Chondrina spec. 2

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 spec. 2 (pl. 12 figs A–D)

Notes.—The shells of two samples that are sister-groups according to the DNA data, are dark brown, with teleoconch whorls that are sculptured with more or less obsolete, irregular growth-lines only. In the aperture there may be a columellar denticle, which is hardly or not visible in frontal view; the apertural lip is moderately thickened inside.The two samples differ conspicuously in shell size and less so in shape. The shells from Barcelona, 1.5 km N of Saldes (RMNH 102444, UTM CG9677), are 4.1–5.4 mm high and 1.9–2.1 mm broad (n=15) and slender conical to fusiform. Specimens from Lérida, La Pobla de Lillet–Castellar de N’hug (RMNH 103318, UTM DG1679) are 4.7–5.5 mm high and 2.2–2.3 mm broad (n=9) and generally more fusiform.

According to the DNA data, this taxon is most closely related to C. aguilari . Together with that species it has affinities with taxa further south in the eastern part of the Iberian peninsula and Morocco.