Africonus fuscoflavus ( Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.663 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE38686E-3041-FF9D-FE31-F9D1FAA10B98 |
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Valdenar |
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Africonus fuscoflavus ( Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980 ) |
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Africonus fuscoflavus ( Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980) View in CoL
Fig. 4E View Fig
Conus fuscoflavus Röckel et al., 1980a: 71 View in CoL , figs 38–41.
Conus messiasi Rolán & Fernandes in Rolán, 1990: 17 View in CoL , pl. 1, fig. 6.
Conus fantasmalis Rolán, 1990: 37 View in CoL , pl. 1, fig. 8.
Africonus silviae Cossignani, 2014: 19 View in CoL .
Africonus cristinapessoae Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2017a: 27 View in CoL . syn. nov.
Africonus gallopalvoi Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2017a: 31 View in CoL . syn. nov.
Africonus tarafensis Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2018c: 32 View in CoL . syn. nov.
Conus fuscoflavus View in CoL – Monteiro et al. 2004: 46, pl. 106.
Conus messiasi View in CoL – Monteiro et al. 2004: 59, pl. 105.
Conus fantasmalis View in CoL – Monteiro et al. 2004: 43, pl. 113.
Material examined
Holotype
CABO VERDE • 20.3 mm; Boa Vista Island, Sal Rei ; NMSF.
Other material
CABO VERDE • 1 spec., 22.3 mm; Boa Vista Island, Derrubado ( bay East ); 16º13ʹ33ʺ N, 22º47ʹ3ʺ W; 1 Jul. 2013; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491557 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/80407 ( Fig. 4E View Fig ) GoogleMaps • 1 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491558 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/80408 GoogleMaps • 1 spec.; Boa Vista Island, Ponta Antónia ; 16º13ʹ24ʺ N, 22º46ʹ59ʺ W; 1 Jul. 2013; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491559 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/80408 GoogleMaps • 1 spec.; Boa Vista Island, Morro de Areia ; 16º5ʹ24ʺ N, 22º57ʹ7ʺ W; 21 Apr. 2015; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491592 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/79947 GoogleMaps • 1 spec.; Maio Island, Porto Cais ; 15º19ʹ15ʺ N, 23º11ʹ10ʺ W; 31 Mar. 2013; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491524 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/78695 GoogleMaps • 1 spec., 24.5 mm, holotype of Africonus cristinapessoae ; Boa Vista Island, Varandinha ; MMM • 1 spec., 17.8 mm, holotype of Africonus gallopalvoi ; Boa Vista Island, Varandinha ; MMM • 1 spec., 25 mm, holotype of Africonus tarafensis ; Boa Vista Island, Baixa de Padaroso ; MMM .
Geographical distribution
Multiple localities around Boa Vista Island and north Maio Island (Baía do Navío Quebrado and Praia Real), Cabo Verde Archipelago.
Conservation status in IUCN Red List
Least concern.
Remarks
Africonus fuscoflavus is the most senior name applicable to a clade composed of individuals from a number of populations of cones distributed around Boa Vista and north Maio Island. Most of these populations had been introduced as separate species based upon their distinctive shell patterns. All of them share the same elongated radular tooth morphology observed in A. fuscoflavus ( Abalde et al. 2017a) . Representative
specimens of these taxa examined molecularly exhibit mitogenome sequences with little divergences with respect to that of A. fuscoflavus , and can be considered conspecific. Additionally, the type material of both A. cristinapessoae and A. gallopalvoi is consistent with the taxon A. fuscoflavus bearing a characteristic pattern of very fine brown axial lines. The recently described A. tarafensis was compared by the authors to A. delanoyae , which has similar shell pattern. However, the shell profile is even more consistent with that of A. fuscoflavus . We therefore consider A. tarafensis as another patterned form of A. fuscoflavus , morphologically similar to the population from Ponta Antónia (very close to Baía do Tarafe, in Derrubado area) included in our phylogeny, and initially identified A. cf. delanoyae ( Abalde et al. 2017a) . We can conclude that A. fuscoflavus is another example of a polymorphic species, comprising several well-defined forms with characteristic shell patterns, sharing the same radular morphology and mitogenome sequence. The distribution range for this species is now expanded and includes the islands of Boa Vista and Maio.
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales |
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Africonus fuscoflavus ( Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980 )
Tenorio, Manuel J., Abalde, Samuel, Pardos-Blas, José R. & Zardoya, Rafael 2020 |
Africonus tarafensis
Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2018: 32 |
Africonus cristinapessoae
Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2017: 27 |
Africonus gallopalvoi
Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2017: 31 |
Conus fuscoflavus
Monteiro A. & Tenorio M. J. & Poppe G. T. 2004: 46 |
Conus messiasi
Monteiro A. & Tenorio M. J. & Poppe G. T. 2004: 59 |
Conus fantasmalis
Monteiro A. & Tenorio M. J. & Poppe G. T. 2004: 43 |
Conus messiasi Rolán & Fernandes in Rolán, 1990: 17
Rolan E. 1990: 17 |
Conus fantasmalis Rolán, 1990: 37
Rolan E. 1990: 37 |
Conus fuscoflavus Röckel et al., 1980a: 71
Rockel D. & Rolan E. & Monteiro A. 1980: 71 |
Africonus silviae
Africonus silviae Cossignani, 2014: 19 . |