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Africonus calhetae

  • 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 calhetae (Rolán, 1990)

Fig. 3F

Conus navarroi calhetae Rolán, 1990: 41, pl. 1, fig. 7.

Conus navarroi calhetae – Monteiro et al. 2004: 63, pl. 151.

Material examined

Holotype

CABO VERDE • 26.8 mm; Maio Island, Baía de Pau Seco; E. Rolán leg.; MNCN 15.05/1096 (Fig. 3F).

Other material

CABO VERDE • 1 spec.; Maio Island, Praia da Soca; 15º15′8″ N, 23º13′4″ W; 2 Apr. 2013; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491534; MNCN 15.05/78798 • 1 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; 2 Apr. 2013; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491533; MNCN 15.05/78787.

Geographical distribution

Between Calheta and Baía do Navío Quebrado, in the western and northwestern coast of Maio Island, Cabo Verde Archipelago.

Conservation status in IUCN Red List

Least concern.

Remarks

This taxon was initially introduced as a subspecies, i.e., Conus navarroi calhetae Rolán, 1990, due to morphological similarities in shell and radula between the populations from São Vicente and Maio islands. However, these disjunct populations are genetically distant. The closest relative according to the phylogeny is the parapatric taxon A. galeao.

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 pages 14-15, 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 15.05/1096 , MNCN 15.05/78787 , MNCN 15.05/78798
Event date
2013-04-02
Verbatim event date
2013-04-02
Scientific name authorship
Rolan
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Neogastropoda
Family
Conidae
Genus
Africonus
Species
calhetae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Africonus calhetae (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.
  • 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.