Africonus lugubris
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 lugubris (Reeve, 1849)
Fig. 4N
Conus lugubris Reeve, 1849: pl. IX, sp. 279.
Conus fuscus Barros e Cunha, 1933: 194.
Conus lugubris – Monteiro et al. 2004: 56, pl. 126, figs 6–7.
Material examined
Lectotype
Lectotype in NHMUK 1981056. Type locality: not known. Hereby designated as north São Vicente Island, Cabo Verde Archipelago.
Other material
CABO VERDE • 1 spec., 14.5 mm; São Vicente Island, Matiota; E. Rolán leg.; MNCN 15.05/90431 (Fig. 4N).
Geographical distribution
Matiota, north São Vicente, Cabo Verde Archipelago.
Conservation status in IUCN Red List
Critically endangered.
Remarks
This species has not been examined molecularly. Specimens matching the type material of this species were found in the 1970’s and 1980’s in Matiota beach in São Vicente Island, but this is now part of a large and touristic urban area in the vicinity of the modern Port of Mindelo. This population is believed to be now extinct. We are not aware of live specimens of this species having been observed for over 20 years. Some empty shells of this species have been collected in recent years, and the search for live specimens in new locations along the north coast of São Vicente Island continues, without success for the moment being. It is feared that the species might have become extinct. The claim for specimens of A. cf. lugubris found at Calhau and Saragaça to the east of São Vicente Island most likely corresponds to individuals of A. freitasi.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNCN , NHMUK
- Material sample ID
- MNCN 15.05/90431 , NHMUK 1981056
- Scientific name authorship
- Reeve
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Conidae
- Genus
- Africonus
- Species
- lugubris
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Africonus lugubris (Reeve, 1849) sec. Tenorio, Abalde, Pardos-Blas & Zardoya, 2020
References
- Barros e Cunha J. G. 1933. Catalogo descritivo das conchas exoticas da coleccao Antonio Augusto de Carvalho Monteiro Familia Conidae. Memorias e Estudos do Museu Zoologico da Universidade de Coimbra ser. 1 71: 1 - 224.
- 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.