Africonus longilineus ( Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980 )

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 : 35-36

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14370455

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE38686E-307B-FFA5-FE30-F974FBE90F72

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Valdenar

scientific name

Africonus longilineus ( Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980 )
status

 

Africonus longilineus ( Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980) View in CoL

Fig. 4M View Fig

Conus grahami longilineus Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980: 85 View in CoL , figs 56–57.

Conus melissae Tenorio, Afonso & Rolán, 2008: 8 View in CoL , pl. 3

Africonus cagarralensis Cossignani, 2014: 21 View in CoL .

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

Africonus minimus Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2015b: 3 View in CoL . syn. nov.

Conus longilineus View in CoL – Monteiro et al. 2004: 55, pl. 124, figs 4–7.

Material examined

Holotype

CABO VERDE • 16.8 mm; Sal Island; 0.8–2 m depth; NMSF.

Other material

CABO VERDE • 1 spec.; Sal Island, Serra Negra ; 16º38ʹ17ʺ N, 22º53ʹ56ʺ W; 5 Apr. 2014; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491572 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/79739 GoogleMaps 1 spec., 21.7 mm; same collection data as for preceding; MNCN 15.05/79738 ( Fig. 4M View Fig ) GoogleMaps 1 spec.; Sal Island, Pedra Lume ; 16º45ʹ44ʺ N, 22º53ʹ2ʺ W; 7 Apr. 2014; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491579 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/79804 GoogleMaps 1 spec.; Sal Island, Baía da Parda; 16º45ʹ7ʺ N, 22º53ʹ56ʺ W; 6 Apr. 2014; MNCN exped.; GenBank mitochondrion, partial genome: MF491577 View Materials ; MNCN 15.05/79779 GoogleMaps 1 spec., 14.0 mm, holotype of Africonus nelsonandradoi ; Sal Island, area of Calhetinha ; 0.3–3 m depth; MMM 1 spec., 7.2 mm, holotype of Africonus minimus ; Sal Island, Praia do Monte Grande and Ponta do Linguincho ; MMM .

Geographical distribution

East coast, Sal Island, Cabo Verde Archipelago.

Conservation status in IUCN Red List

Least concern.

Remarks

This taxon was initially introduced as a subspecies of A. grahami . Despite superficial resemblance in shell morphology, A. longilineus is a separate species endemic to Sal Island, only distantly related to A. grahami . Although the type locality for A. longilineus was not specifically mentioned in the original description, its distribution range was stated to be along the east coast of Sal Island, with another population in the north of the island. Several representative specimens of recently named taxa described from the east coast of Sal Island exhibit mitogenome sequences almost identical to that of A. longilineus , and are therefore considered synonyms (forms) of this species. The species A. nelsonandradoi was compared in the original description to the very variable A. cagarralensis , which is a synonym (form) of A. longilineus ( Abalde et al. 2017a) . We propose to consider that A. nelsonandradoi represents merely a northern population of the latter. On the other hand, A. minimus likely is a juvenile of A. longilineus . Besides, the name Africonus minimus Cossignani & Fiadeiro, 2015b most likely is invalid under ICZN articles 57.3 and 59.1, as it is a junior secondary homonym of Conus minimus Linnaeus, 1758 , Conus minimus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 and Conus minimus d’Archiac, 1843 .

MNCN

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Conidae

Genus

Africonus

Loc

Africonus longilineus ( Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980 )

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

Africonus nelsonandradoi

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

Africonus minimus

Cossignani T. & Fiadeiro R. 2015: 3
2015
Loc

Conus melissae Tenorio, Afonso & Rolán, 2008: 8

Tenorio M. J. & Afonso C. M. L. & Rolan E. 2008: 8
2008
Loc

Conus longilineus

Monteiro A. & Tenorio M. J. & Poppe G. T. 2004: 55
2004
Loc

Conus grahami longilineus Röckel, Rolán & Monteiro, 1980: 85

Rockel D. & Rolan E. & Monteiro A. 1980: 85
1980
Loc

Africonus cagarralensis

Africonus cagarralensis Cossignani, 2014: 21 .
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