Africonus borgesi
Authors/Creators
- 1. Departamento CMIM y Química Inorgánica - Instituto de Biomoléculas (INBIO), Facultad de Ciencias, Torre Norte, 1 ª Planta, Universidad de Cadiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Cadiz, Spain.
- 2. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
- 3. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain. & Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Description
Africonus borgesi (Trovão, 1979)
Fig. 3E
Conus borgesi Trovão, 1979: 6, pl. 1, fig. 4.
Africonus wandae Cossignani, 2014: 22. syn. nov.
Africonus pedrofiadeiroi Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2015a: 18. syn. nov.
Conus borgesi – Monteiro et al. 2004: 30, pl. 116–117.
Material examined
Holotype
CABO VERDE • 26.1 mm; Boa Vista Island, Baía das Gatas; 2 m depth; NHMUK 1986196.
Other material
CABO VERDE • 1 spec., 30.5 mm; Boa Vista Island, Derrubado; 16º13′31″ N, 22º47′32″ W; 29 Jun. 2013; MNCN exped.; MNCN 15.05 /88646 (Fig. 3E) • 1 spec.; Boa Vista Island, Porto Ferreira; 16º7′45″ N, 22º40′17″ W; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: NC_013243; MNCN ADN/6990 • 1 spec., 27.4 mm, holotype of Africonus wandae; Boa Vista Island, Baía Grande; MMM • 1 spec., 24.7 mm, holotype of Africonus pedrofiadeiroi; Boa Vista Island, Curral Velho to Ilhéu de Galeão; 1 to 5 m depth; MMM.
Geographical distribution
Multiple localities around Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde Archipelago.
Conservation status in IUCN Red List
Least concern.
Remarks
This species is widely distributed around the island of Boa Vista. Differences in color pattern have been invoked for the introduction of new names for certain local populations from the southeast and south coasts of the island without further justification. We hereby consider these names as synonyms. Thus, specimens matching the type material of Africonus wandae were studied in detail in Tenorio et al. (2014), and their haplotypes (cox1 gene fragment) showed to be identical with that of A. borgesi. The holotype of Africonus pedrofiadeiroi exhibits a white middle band patterned with minute brown zigzag markings, a feature characteristic of A. borgesi, which is considered conspecific.
Africonus borgesi and A. josephinae are very closely related according to the phylogeny. They belong to a lineage that contains species from Boa Vista and Maio islands, and is the sister group to the remaining Africonus.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MMM , MNCN , NHMUK
- Material sample ID
- ADN/6990 , MNCN 15.05/88646 , NHMUK 1986196
- Event date
- 2013-06-29
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-06-29
- Scientific name authorship
- Trovao
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Africonus
- Species
- borgesi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Africonus borgesi (Trovao, 1979) sec. Tenorio, Abalde, Pardos-Blas & Zardoya, 2020
References
- Trovao H. F. M. 1979. Contribuicao para o estudo dos Moluscos Gasteropodos da famaia Conidae da Africa occidental. Amphitrite 1 (1): 3 - 12.
- Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2014 a. Quattro nuovi coni da Capo Verde. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 83 (2): 14 - 19.
- Rolan E. 1990. Descripcion de nuevas especies y subespecies del genero Conus (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) para el Archipielago de Cabo Verde. Iberus, Supplement 2: 5 - 70.
- Sowerby II G. B. Jr. 1858. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or Monographs of the Genera of Shells, vol. 3. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10596
- Reeve L. A. 1843 - 44. Monograph of the Genus Conus. Conchologia Iconica, I: Figures and Descriptions of the Shells of Molluscs; with Remarks on their Affinities, Synonymy, and Geographical Distribution, 1. Conus. Available from http: // biology. burke. washington. edu / conus / catalogue / sources / Reeve, % 20 1843 - 9. % 20 Conch. % 20 Icon .. % 20 i. % 20 Conus .. pdf [accessed 29 Mar. 2020].
- Rolan E. 1986. Descripcion de tres nuevas especies del genero Conus (Gastropoda) del archipielago de Cabo Verde. Publicacoes Ocasionais da Sociedade Portuguesa de Malacologia 6: 1 - 16.
- Rockel D., Rolan E. & Monteiro A. 1980 a. Cone Shells from Cabo Verde Archipelago a difficult puzzle. Feito, Vigo, Spain.
- Afonso C. M. L. & Tenorio M. J. 2011. A new, distinct endemic Africonus species (Gastropoda, Conidae) from Sao Vicente Island, Cape Verde Archipelago, West Africa. Gloria Maris 50 (5): 125 - 136. Available from https: // storage. googleapis. com / conchology-general-images / images / gloriamaris / pdfs / 2011 / Vol 50 - 5. pdf [accessed 23 May 2020]
- Trovao H. F. M. & Rolan E. 1986. Description of a new species for the genus Conus (Gastropoda: Conidae), from the Cape Verde Islands. Publicacoes Ocasionais da Sociedade Portuguesa de Malacologia 7: 9 - 15.
- Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2017 a. Otto nuovi coni da Capo Verde. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 94: 26 - 36.
- Cossignani T. 2014. Dieci nuovi coni da Capo Verde. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 82 (1): 18 - 29.
- Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2015 a. Tre nuovi coni da Capo Verde. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 86: 17 - 21.
- Monteiro A., Tenorio M. J. & Poppe G. T. 2004. A Conchological Iconography; The Family Conidae: the West African and Mediterranean Species of Conus. ConchBooks, Hackenheim.
- Tenorio M. J., Afonso C. M. L., Cunha R. L. & Rolan E. 2014. New species of Africonus (Gastropoda, Conidae) from Boa Vista in the Cape Verde Archipelago: molecular and morphological characterization. Xenophora Taxonomy 2: 5 - 18.