Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: New synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) 2539
Author
Kokshoorn, Bas
Author
Gittenberger, Edmund
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-07-16
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2539.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2539.1.1
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Rupestrella kabyliana
(
Letourneux, 1870
)
Type
locality:
Algeria
, rocks of
Tablabalt
near
Fort Napoleon
(
36.637°N
/
4.201°E
)
.
Notes.—Two samples of ‘
Pupa penchinatiana
’ from
Algeria
in the Colln Bourguignat (BG12985, 12986), most probably belong to
R. kabyliana
. The shells have (1) more prominent and regular riblets, expecially on the spire, (2) the apertural teeth are more prominent, (3) the apertural lip is somewhat reflexed, without being conspicuously thickened, and (4) the apical whorls are in general slightly more slender. The differences are slight indeed, which makes once more clear that the genera
Chondrina
and
Rupestrella
cannot be distinguished unequivocally on the basis of only shell characters.