Chondrina soleri Altimira, 1960

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 : 38

Chondrina soleri Altimira, 1960 (pl. 10 fig. G)

Chondrina (Modicella) farinesi soleri Altimira, 1960: 12 (valid after ICZN Article 45.6.4.). Spain, Barcelona, Sant

Llorenç del Munt, entrance to the cave Simanya (E-side Montcau mtn), 900 m alt.; UTM DG1814.

Type series: RMNH 111877 / lectotype (design. nov.) (pl. 10, fig. G), 111878/ 6 paralectotypes .

Description.—Shell slender fusiform, brown; teleoconch with only irregular growth-lines. Aperture with an obsolete angularis, which may be lacking completely; columellaris and parietalis developed as small denticles which are hardly or not visible in frontal view. The palatales superior and inferior are short but relatively prominent, white teeth, which are slightly more than their own length away from the apertural lip. Apertural lip white, rib-like thickened inside. Shell measurements (n=7): height 4.6–5.6 mm, width 2.1–2.4 mm; 6–6¼ whorls.

Notes.—This nominal taxon has been overlooked by Gittenberger (1973). In shell shape, sculpture and size, and especially by the short but prominent palatales, this form is somewhat similar to C. aguilari . In the latter species however, the parietalis and columellaris are more prominent, and the palatalis inferior is often slightly more prominent than the superior, whereas in C. soleri the opposite is the case.