Solatopupa similis ( Bruguière, 1792 )

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 : 9

Solatopupa similis ( Bruguière, 1792)

Type locality: France, southern provinces .

Distribution.—For a long time, S. juliana has been considered only a synonym of S. similis . As a consequence, the distribution indicated for S. similis by Margier (1901) and Gittenberger (1973), includes the range of S. juliana . In the Mediterranean coastal area, S. similis reaches from the province of Gerona in NE Spain as far eastward as Bogliasco in Liguria, Italy, some km east of Genova. It does not occur in Toscana and Lazio. The species has also been reported from localities more to the north, i.e. from the departments of Isère and Drôme in France, from near Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland, and from the province of Torino, Italy ( Margier 1901; Gittenberger 1973; Gavetti et al. 2008). See also with S. juliana .