Africonus verdensis ( Trovão, 1979 )

Tenorio, Manuel J., Abalde, Samuel, Pardos-Blas, José R. & Zardoya, Rafael, 2020, Taxonomic revision of West African cone snails (Gastropoda: Conidae) based upon mitogenomic studies: implications for conservation, European Journal of Taxonomy 663 (663), pp. 1-89 : 45-46

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.663

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78E7049C-F592-4D01-9D15-C7715119B584

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE38686E-3075-FFAB-FDB1-F8DBFDB90C0C

treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Africonus verdensis ( Trovão, 1979 )
status

 

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 .

MNCN

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Conidae

Genus

Africonus

Loc

Africonus verdensis ( Trovão, 1979 )

Tenorio, Manuel J., Abalde, Samuel, Pardos-Blas, José R. & Zardoya, Rafael 2020
2020
Loc

Africonus nelsontiagoi

Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2014: 26
2014
Loc

Conus verdensis verdensis

Monteiro A. & Tenorio M. J. & Poppe G. T. 2004: 80
2004
Loc

Conus cuneolus

Rockel D. & Rolan E. & Monteiro A. 1980: 113
1980
Loc

Conus verdensis Trovão, 1979: 5

Trovao H. F. M. 1979: 5
1979
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