Africonus boavistensis
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 boavistensis (Rolán & Fernandes in Rolán, 1990)
Fig. 3D
Conus boavistensis Rolán & Fernandes in Rolán, 1990: 23, pl. 1, fig. 17.
Africonus barrosensis Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2017a: 27. syn. nov.
Africonus varandinhensis Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2017a: 33. syn. nov.
Conus boavistensis – Monteiro et al. 2004: 29, pl. 121.
Material examined
Holotype
CABO VERDE • 13.2 mm; Boa Vista Island, Morro de Areia; E. Rolán leg.; MNCN 15.05/1089 (Fig. 3 D).
Other material
CABO VERDE • 1 spec.; Boa Vista Island, Baía do Ervatão; 16º12′3″ N, 22º54′43″ W; 2 Jul. 2013; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491563; MNCN 15.05/80413 • 1 spec., 11 mm, holotype of Africonus barrosensis; Boa Vista Island, João Barrosa; MMM • 1 spec, 10.6 mm, holotype of Africonus varandinhensis; Boa Vista Island, Varandinha; MMM.
Geographical distribution
Multiple localities around Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde Archipelago.
Conservation status in IUCN Red List
Least concern.
Remarks
This small species is widely distributed around the island of Boa Vista. It is very variable, and it has given rise to the introduction of several names (applied to representative specimens from certain local populations from the southwest and south coasts of the island), which are hereby considered junior synonyms. In the molecular tree, it appears as sister to A. diminutus, with a short genetic distance. Both species belong to a clade in which all the individuals have medium-sized and very broad radular teeth. The specimens in the type series of A. barrosensis and A. varandinhensis exhibit shell coloration, pattern and shape consistent with the morphological variability of A. boavistensi s.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- D , MMM , MNCN
- Material sample ID
- MNCN 15.05/1089 , MNCN 15.05/80413
- Event date
- 2013-07-02
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-07-02
- Scientific name authorship
- Rolan & Fernandes in Rolan
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Africonus
- Species
- boavistensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Africonus boavistensis (Rolan, 1990) sec. Tenorio, Abalde, Pardos-Blas & Zardoya, 2020
References
- 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.
- Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2017 a. Otto nuovi coni da Capo Verde. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 94: 26 - 36.
- 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.