Africonus bellulus (Rolán, 1990)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Conus bellulus Rolán, 1990 (basionym)

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1970's (Peters et al., 2013) or post-1990 (Tenorio et al., 202)

Distribution

Cape Verde Islands (=Archipiélago de Cabo Verde)

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Rolán, E. (1990). Descripcion de nuevas especies y subspecies del genero Conus (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) para el Archipelago de Cabo Verde. Iberus 2: 5-70.

Other references:

Carlton, James T. (2023). Marine Invertebrate Neoextinctions: An Update and Call for Inventories of Globally Missing Species. Diversity 15(6): 782. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15060782

Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.

Peters, H., O'Leary, B. C., Hawkins, J. P., Carpenter, K. E. and Roberts, C. M. (2013). Conus: First Comprehensive Conservation Red List Assessment of a Marine Gastropod Mollusc Genus. PLoS ONE 8(12): e83353.

Tenorio, M. J., Abalde, S., Pardos-Blas, J. R. and Zardoya, R. (2020). Taxonomic revision of West African cone snails (Gastropoda: Conidae) based upon mitogenomic studies: Implications for conservation. Eur. J. Taxon. 663: 1-89.

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