A narrow range endemic species is described from NW Italy as Chondrina feneriensis spec. nov. The new species is classified with other centre-East Alpine taxa on the basis of a molecular phylogenetic analysis. It is closely related to C. generosensis Nordsieck, 1962. The two taxa differ morphologically in some characters of the shell and the genital tract, and in mitochondrial DNA sequence data. These differences, and the absence of intermediate forms, support its taxonomic status as a separate species, rather than a subspecies of C. generosensis. Chondrina feneriensis spec. nov. is restricted to a small area in the Fenera massif in Piedmont, at the boundary between the Vercelli and the Novara districts, where it inhabits dry limestone cliffs.

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Marco Bodon, Gianbattista Nardi, Simone Cianfanelli, & Bas Kokshoorn. (2015). A new species of Chondrina (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Chondrinidae) from Piedmont (Northern Italy). Basteria, 79(4/6), 65–80.