146 BASTERIA, Vol. 52, No. 4-6, 1988
New records of Hypnophila malagana from S. Spain (Gastropoda Pulmonata: Cochlicopidae)
E. Gittenberger
Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, P.O. Box 9517, NL 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Our knowledge concerning the distribution of Hypnophila malagana Gittenberger, 1983, is
summarized.
Key words: Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Cochlicopidae, Hypnophila malagana, distribution,
Spain.
five described from the Only years ago, Hypnophila malagana was as a new species province of Malaga in S. Spain (Gittenberger, 1983: 304). Meanwhile the species has become known from five additional provinces, which implies a considerableextension of its known The records listed below. Material of all these range. new are recently
discovered localities could be studied by the present author. It turned out that the original description should be emended only with respect to the dimensions of the shell
(height 4.8 to 6.2 mm; width 1.9 to 2.25 mm). Apparently, H. malagana is rather uniform conchologically. Some of the new records have been published already by
Escola & Bech (1986: 89).
For collections the following abbreviations are used: MZB, Museu de Zoologia
(Barcelona); RMNH, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (Leiden). Following the
collection the number of specimens is indicated. Records the km Cadiz: Molinos (with 1 or 10 km UTM-grid code). —Spain. Arroyo near Zahara, TF8878 (MZB/1). Castellon: Serra d'En Galceran, Cova Santa,
YK5567 (MZB/3). Granada: 28 km ESE of Cazorla in the Parque Natural de las Sier- ras de Cazorla the Embalse del Tranco de Beas, WG28 y Segura, along (RMNH/3).
Jaen, 7 km SSE of Cazorla near the spring of the Guadalquivir, WG08 (RMNH/1).
Valencia: Serra de Porta-Coeli, Avenc Garbf, YJ1290 (MZB/1).
The species was originally described from the province of Malaga only: UF15, 34,
48 & 65 (Gittenberger, 1983: 306).
I would like to thank both Dr. O. Escola (Barcelona) and Mr. H. B. Marcus (Huis ter Heide), who most kindly sent me material on loan for study, additionally allowing me to publish results of their investigations.
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