Africonus verdensis ( Trovão, 1979 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.663 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E7049C-F592-4D01-9D15-C7715119B584 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE38686E-3075-FFAB-FDB1-F8DBFDB90C0C |
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Valdenar |
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Africonus verdensis ( Trovão, 1979 ) |
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Africonus verdensis ( Trovão, 1979) View in CoL
Fig. 6J View Fig
Conus verdensis Trovão, 1979: 5 View in CoL , pl. 1, fig. 3.
Africonus nelsontiagoi Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2014b: 26 View in CoL .
Conus verdensis verdensis View in CoL – Monteiro et al. 2004: 80, pl. 81, pl. 82, figs 6, 9.
Conus cuneolus View in CoL form M (not C. cuneolus Reeve, 1843 View in CoL ) – Röckel et al. 1980a: 113, pl. 6, row 5a–b, fig. 95B.
Material examined
Holotype
CABO VERDE • 17.1 mm; “ Santa Luzia Island ” [erroneous, hereby corrected to Santiago Island, Tarrafal]; NHMUK 1986195 .
Other material
CABO VERDE • 1 spec.; Santiago Island, Tarrafal ; 15º16ʹ50ʺ N, 23º45ʹ15ʺ W; 6Apr.2013; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491540 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/78865 GoogleMaps • 1 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491541 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/78875 GoogleMaps • 1 spec., 22.5 mm; same collection data as for preceding; MNCN 15.05/78864 ( Fig. 6J View Fig ) GoogleMaps .
Geographical distribution
Santiago Island, Cabo Verde Archipelago.
Conservation status in IUCN Red List
Least concern.
Remarks
The type locality for this species is most likely erroneous, as it seems to be endemic to Santiago Island, being particularly abundant around the Tarrafal area to the northwest. The species introduced under the name nelsontiagoi had been illustrated and referred to as Conus cuneolus form M in Röckel et al. (1980a). This form appears distributed mostly along the east coast of Santiago Island, with a transition area to the north where it intergrades with typical A. verdensis . Morphological studies of shell and radula had already suggested the close relationship of this morph with the taxon A. verdensis ( Rolán 2005) . The molecular phylogeny and mitochondrial genome sequence divergences support the conspecificity of nelsontiagoi with A. verdensis .
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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales |
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Africonus verdensis ( Trovão, 1979 )
Tenorio, Manuel J., Abalde, Samuel, Pardos-Blas, José R. & Zardoya, Rafael 2020 |
Africonus nelsontiagoi
Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2014: 26 |
Conus verdensis verdensis
Monteiro A. & Tenorio M. J. & Poppe G. T. 2004: 80 |
Conus cuneolus
Rockel D. & Rolan E. & Monteiro A. 1980: 113 |
Conus verdensis Trovão, 1979: 5
Trovao H. F. M. 1979: 5 |