Africonus josephinae
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 josephinae (Rolán, 1980)
Fig. 4K
Conus josephinae Rolán, 1980: 80. pls 1, 3, fig. 104.
Africonus marckeppensi Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2017b: 33.
Africonus guiandradoi Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2017c: 52. syn. nov.
Africonus demisgeraldoi Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2018a: 17. syn. nov.
Conus josephinae – Monteiro et al. 2004: 54, pls 109, 111.
Material examined
Holotype
CABO VERDE • 25.8 mm; Boa Vista Island, Sal Rei; 1–5 m depth; E. Rolán leg.; MNCN 15.05/1050 (Fig. 4K).
Other material
CABO VERDE • 1 spec.; Boa Vista Island, Ilhéu de Sal Rei; 16º9ʹ50ʺ N, 22º55ʹ31ʺ W; 3 Jul. 2013; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491565; MNCN 15.05/80415 • 1 spec.; Boa Vista Island, Ervatão Norte; 16º12ʹ3ʺ N, 22º54ʹ43ʺ W; 2 Jul. 2013; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491562; MNCN 15.05/80412 • 1 spec., 25 mm, holotype of Africonus guiandradoi; Boa Vista Island, NE of Sal Rei in Baixa da Hortinha; MMM • 1 spec., 23.8 mm, holotype of Africonus demisgeraldoi; Boa Vista Island, Baixa de Padaroso; MMM.
Geographical distribution
Multiple localities around Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde Archipelago.
Conservation status in IUCN Red List
Near threatened. Status revision required.
Remarks
This species is very closely related to A. borgesi. With regards to the conservation status, A. josephinae used to be abundant around its type locality in Boa Vista Island. However, the expansion of the town of Sal Rei due to touristic and industrial development is seriously compromising the habitat of this population. The alleged conspecific population from Maio Island has been now established as a separate species, namely A. perrineae Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2018, in agreement with molecular data (Abalde et al. 2017a; Tenorio et al. 2018). This significantly reduces the distribution range of A. josephinae. On the other hand, several populations distributed around Boa Vista Island, which have been recently introduced as new species, actually correspond to different color and pattern variations of A. josephinae. These names are here synonymized accordingly. Thus, A. guiandradoi is applied to pale-colored individuals of A. josephinae with a pattern of sparse fine brown spiral lines. This pattern is commonly observed in specimens of A. perrineae from Maio Island, but it is rare in Boa Vista. The name A. demisgeraldoi applies to typical brown specimens of A. josephinae that display one midbody band irregularly patterned with white blotches. The alleged differences in shell shape were not statistically tested, and the presence of white blotches on the shell does not warrant the separation from A. josephinae. Taking into consideration all these changes, a risk status revision for A. josephinae is strongly recommended.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MMM , MNCN
- Material sample ID
- MNCN 15.05/1050 , MNCN 15.05/80412 , MNCN 15.05/80415
- Event date
- 2013-07-02 , 2013-07-03
- Verbatim event date
- 2013-07-02 , 2013-07-03
- Scientific name authorship
- Rolan
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Africonus
- Species
- josephinae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Africonus josephinae (Rolan, 1980) sec. Tenorio, Abalde, Pardos-Blas & Zardoya, 2020
References
- Rolan E. 1980. Descripcion de tres nuevas especies del genero Conus Linne, 1758 (Mollusca: Gastropoda), procedentes del archipielago de Cabo Verde. Bollettino Malacologico 16 (3 - 4): 79 - 94.
- Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2017 b. Un nuovo cono da Capo Verde. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 96: 32 - 34.
- Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2017 c. Un nuovo cono da Capo Verde. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 97: 52 - 53.
- Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2018 a. Quattro nuovi coni da Capo Verde. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 98: 14 - 20.
- 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.
- 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
- Tenorio M. J., Abalde S. & Zardoya R. 2018. Identification of new species of Kalloconus and Africonus (Gastropoda, Conidae) from the Cabo Verde Archipelago through mitochondrial genome comparison. The Festivus 50 (2): 73 - 88.