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Kalloconus byssinus

  • 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

Kalloconus byssinus (Röding, 1798)

Fig. 6O

Cucullus byssinus Röding, 1798: 41.

Conus pulcher byssinus – Monteiro et al. 2004: 68, pls 22–23.

Material examined

Lectotype

Representation of lectotype in Martini (1773: pl. 60, fig. 669) (Kohn 1975). Type locality not stated, designated Villa Cisneros (now Dakhla), Western Sahara (Coomans et al. 1982).

Other material

MAURITANIA • 1 spec., 56.4 mm; Noadibou; MNCN 15.05/90429 (Fig. 6O).

Geographical distribution

Western Sahara and Mauritania.

Conservation status in IUCN Red List

Not evaluated.

Remarks

Specimens from the type locality have not been molecularly examined. However, the mitogenome of a specimen from Senegal with a shell morphology matching that of typical K. byssinus is almost identical to that of K. pulcher (Abalde et al. 2017a). There are no significant differences between the radular teeth of K. pulcher and K. byssinus. Although we consider K. byssinus as provisionally valid only, pending molecular examination of specimens from the type locality, it is however likely that this taxon represents just a phenotypic variation of the widespread K. pulcher, typical of the northern end of its distribution range along the West African coast.

Notes

Published as part of Tenorio, Manuel J., Abalde, Samuel, Pardos-Blas, José R. & Zardoya, Rafael, 2020, Taxonomic revision of West African cone snails (Gastropoda: Conidae) based upon mitogenomic studies: implications for conservation, pp. 1-89 in European Journal of Taxonomy 663 (663) on page 50, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.663, http://zenodo.org/record/3890442

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNCN
Material sample ID
MNCN 15.05/90429
Scientific name authorship
Roding
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Neogastropoda
Family
Conidae
Genus
Kalloconus
Species
byssinus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Kalloconus byssinus (Roding, 1798) sec. Tenorio, Abalde, Pardos-Blas & Zardoya, 2020

References

  • Roding P. F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum, sive, Catalogus Cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat JoA. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d., per XL. annus Proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars Secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia and multivalvia. Johan. Christi. Trapii, Hamburg. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10588
  • 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.
  • Martini F. H. W. 1773. Neues Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, 2. Nurnberg. Available from https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 43760 [accessed 23 May 2020]
  • Kohn A. J. 1975. Type specimens and identity of the described species of Conus. V. The species described by Salis Marschlins and Roding, 1793 - 1798. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 57: 185 - 226. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1975. tb 00816. x
  • Coomans H. E., Moolenbeek R. G. & Wils E. 1982. Alphabetical revision of the (sub) species in recent Conidae 5. baccatus to byssinus, including Conus brettinghami nomen novum. Basteria 46 (1 / 4): 3 - 67. Available from http: // natuurtijdschriften. nl / download? type = document & docid = 596751 [accessed 29 Mar. 2020].
  • Abalde S., Tenorio M. J., Afonso C. M. L., Uribe J. E., Echeverry A. M. & Zardoya R. 2017 a. Phylogenetic relationships of cone snails endemic to Cabo Verde based on mitochondrial genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: 231. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 12862 - 017 - 1069 - x