Africonus borgesi ( 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 : 12-14

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-3052-FF8B-FDA5-FAD4FEC90CD3

treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Africonus borgesi ( Trovão, 1979 )
status

 

Africonus borgesi ( Trovão, 1979) View in CoL

Fig. 3E View Fig

Conus borgesi Trovão, 1979: 6 View in CoL , pl. 1, fig. 4.

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Africonus wandae Cossignani, 2014: 22 View in CoL . syn. nov.

Africonus pedrofiadeiroi Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2015a: 18 View in CoL . syn. nov.

Conus borgesi View in CoL – Monteiro et al. 2004: 30, pl. 116–117.

Material examined

Holotype

CABO VERDE • 26.1 mm; Boa Vista Island, Baía das Gatas; 2 m depth; NHMUK 1986196 View Materials .

Other material

CABO VERDE • 1 spec., 30.5 mm; Boa Vista Island, Derrubado ; 16º13′31″ N, 22º47′32″ W; 29 Jun. 2013; MNCN exped.; MNCN 15.05 View Materials /88646 ( Fig. 3E View Fig ) GoogleMaps 1 spec.; Boa Vista Island, Porto Ferreira; 16º7′45″ N, 22º40′17″ W; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: NC_013243; MNCN ADN/6990 GoogleMaps 1 spec., 27.4 mm, holotype of Africonus wandae ; Boa Vista Island, Baía Grande ; MMM 1 spec., 24.7 mm, holotype of Africonus pedrofiadeiroi ; Boa Vista Island, Curral Velho to Ilhéu de Galeão ; 1 to 5 m depth; MMM .

Geographical distribution

Multiple localities around Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde Archipelago.

Conservation status in IUCN Red List

Least concern.

Remarks

This species is widely distributed around the island of Boa Vista. Differences in color pattern have been invoked for the introduction of new names for certain local populations from the southeast and south coasts of the island without further justification. We hereby consider these names as synonyms. Thus, specimens matching the type material of Africonus wandae were studied in detail in Tenorio et al. (2014), and their haplotypes (cox1 gene fragment) showed to be identical with that of A. borgesi . The holotype of Africonus pedrofiadeiroi exhibits a white middle band patterned with minute brown zigzag markings, a feature characteristic of A. borgesi , which is considered conspecific.

Africonus borgesi and A. josephinae are very closely related according to the phylogeny. They belong to a lineage that contains species from Boa Vista and Maio islands, and is the sister group to the remaining Africonus .

MNCN

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Conidae

Genus

Africonus

Loc

Africonus borgesi ( Trovão, 1979 )

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

Africonus pedrofiadeiroi

Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2015: 18
2015
Loc

Conus borgesi

Monteiro A. & Tenorio M. J. & Poppe G. T. 2004: 30
2004
Loc

Conus borgesi Trovão, 1979: 6

Trovao H. F. M. 1979: 6
1979
Loc

Africonus wandae

Africonus wandae Cossignani, 2014: 22
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