Chondrina massotiana subsp. massotiana, massotiana (Bourguignat, 1863)

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

C. massotiana massotiana ( Bourguignat, 1863) (pl. 9 figs E–J)

Acting as First Revisers in the sense of the ICZN (Art. 24.2), we here introduce the following synonymy for two nominal taxa introduced by Bourguignat (1863).

Pupa massotiana Bourguignat, 1863: 61 Andorra, Sant Juliá de Lória). Lectotype (design. Gittenberger 1973): BG 13160, with 4 paralectotypes (one of which is a fragment of the last whorl and another one lacks the apical whorls); BG 13159/ 30 paralectotypes.

Pupa penchinatiana Bourguignat, 1863: 62 ( Andorra, Sant Juliá de Lória). Lectotype (design. Gittenberger 1973): BG13190.

Chondrina farinesii farinesii: Gittenberger, 1973 [part.]: 213, fig. 117. Not Des Moulins, 1835.

Description.—The angularis is a white, linear callus, that varies from prominent to obsolete. There may be two more or less vague palatals, which either are equally long or the palatalis superior is the longer one and reaches the outer lip. The palatals may be obsolete or missing completely, but the parietalis and the columellaris are always present. Shell height 4.3–7.2mm, width 1.9–2.6 mm.

Notes.—Although Bourguignat (1863: 61, 62) distinguished two species based on the presence of one or two palatal folds, his type series (Colln Bourguignat, Geneva, Nrs 13159, 13160) of Pupa massotiana contains shells which vary between two rather prominent palatals and none. From Linas de Broto in the Spanish province of Huesca, a sample (RMNH 109429) with this species and C. ascendens is known.

See also Rupestrella kabyliana .