Chondrina pseudavenacea Kokshoorn & Gittenberger 2010, spec. nov.

Chondrina pseudavenacea spec. nov. (pl. 13 fig. H)

Type series: Spain, Alicante. — 7 km NE of Altea, Barranco de Mascarat, UTM YH6080, L. Gasull leg. (RMNH 109867 / holotype); 7 km NE of Altea, Barranco de Mascarat, UTM YH6080, L. Gasull leg. (RMNH 111888 / 54 paratypes); Morro de Toix, S-side peninsula, c. 250 m alt., UTM BC4079, BC leg., 6.v.2006 (RMNH 109868 / 15 paratypes); 2 km ESE Callosa de Ensarria, near cascada El Argar, UTM YH5281, L. Gasull leg. (RMNH 109869 / 1 paratype); 2 km ESE Callosa de Ensarria, near cascada El Argar, UTM YH5281, H.B. Marcus leg. (RMNH 111887 / 6 paratypes).

Description.—Shell brownish, conical or somewhat more fusiform, with fine, more or less obsolete growth-lines, which do not give the impression of regular riblets. Aperture with three prominent palatals, of which the infrapalatalis is the weakest, a columellaris and a less conspicuous infracolumellaris, and a very prominent parietalis. An angularis is more or less obsolete or lacking completely and a spiralis is always absent. Shell height 5.8–6.8 mm; width 2.7–3.0 mm.

Notes.—This Chondrina species can be recognized relatively easily on the basis of only shell characters. In C. avenacea, which is somewhat similar conchologically, the shell is more cylindrical instead of conical, and always has a spiralis in the aperture.At the three localities from where it is known, this species occurs together with C. arigonis, which can easily be distinguished by the presence of only two palatal teeth and a more conspicuously thickened and flattened apertural lip.

Derivatio nominis.—The epithet refers to the similarity with C. avenacea in apertural characters.