Africonus felitae
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 felitae (Rolán, 1990)
Fig. 4A
Conus felitae Rolán, 1990: 45, pl. 1, fig. 18.
Conus felitae – Monteiro et al. 2004: 43, pl. 74.
Material examined
Holotype
CABO VERDE • 12.7 mm; Sal Island, Rabo de Junco, extreme north of Baía de Murdeira; E. Rolán leg.; MNCN 15.05/1099 (Fig. 4A).
Other material
CABO VERDE • 1 spec.; Sal Island, Rabo de Junco; 16º41ʹ44ʺ N, 24º58ʹ35ʺ W; 6 Apr. 2014; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491573; MNCN 15.05/79744.
Geographical distribution
Only known from the type locality at Sal Island, Cabo Verde Archipelago.
Conservation status in IUCN Red List
Vulnerable.
Remarks
This small-sized species endemic to Sal Island is closely related to A. cuneolus. Its distinctive shell and radular morphology as well as the phylogenetic data are consistent with its status as a valid species with a very reduced distribution range.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNCN
- Material sample ID
- MNCN 15.05/1099 , MNCN 15.05/79744
- Event date
- 2014-04-06
- Verbatim event date
- 2014-04-06
- Scientific name authorship
- Rolan
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Africonus
- Species
- felitae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Africonus felitae (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.