Cone Collector’s
Guide: What’s New 2015
Any significant news and changes in 2015 are summarised here and they will be integrated as appropriate into the next release of the main files of the Paul Kersten checklist. These main files were last updated in December 2015.
Events reported up to December 2014 from the launch of the website, will be found in WhatsNew 2013 and WhatsNew 2014 sections of this website.
December 2015.
New cone from Philippines described by Poppe and Tagaro in Visaya 4/4(www.concholgy.be).
Described from a single specimen from Sulu Island, Philippines, Conus admirationis at 59mm is compared to C. oishii.
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Holotype 59.6mm |
October 2015.
New cone Tesselliconus devorsinei from Queensland, Australia described in Festivus 47(4) (see www.sandiegoshellclub.com/festivus ) by Petuch, Berschauer & Poremski. Also, Jaspidiconus vantwoudti from Aruba.
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Holotype 29mm |
Holotype 12.5mm |
September 2015.
Three new cones described in Malacologia 88. (www.malacologia.it )
T. Cossignani & R Fiadeiro describe Africonus santaluziensis and Africonus miguelfiaderoi from the Cape Verde Islands.
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Africonus miguelfiaderoi holotype |
Africonus santaluziensis holotype |
Darioconus fortdauphinensis is described by L. Bozzetti from Madagascar.
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Darioconus fortdauphinensis types. Holotype in centre. |
July 2015.
Two new cones described in Festivus 47/3 by Ed Petuch & David Berschauer. Tenorioconus monicae and Tenorioconus rosi are described from Aruba.
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Tenorioconus monicae |
Tenorioconus rosi |
April 2015.
Two new cones from Cape Verde Islands described in Malacologia 86 by T. Cossignani and R. Fiadeiro (www.malacologia.it ).
Africonus minimus from east coast of Sal Island and Africonus roquenesis from east coast of Boavista.
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Africonus minimus |
Africonus roquensis |
April 2015.
Three new cones described in Xenophora Taxonomy 7.(www.xenophora.org)
Manuel Tenorio describes a deep water cone from New Caledonia. Profundiconus smirnoides is similar to P. smirna but demonstrates differences in shell morphology and pattern.
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P. smirnoides holotype |
Eric Monnier and Loic Limpalaer review the cones of the C. caillaudi complex and introduce two new names. Kioconus hoaraui from Reunion and Kioconus malcolmi from the Red Sea.
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K. hoaraui holotype |
K.malcolmi holotype |
March 2016.
Three new cones from Cape Verde Islands described in Malacologia 86 by T. Cossignani and R. Fiadeiro (www.malacologia.it )
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A. nelsonandradoi holotype |
A. damioi holotype |
A. pedrofiadeiroi holotype |
February 2015.
Four authors, Monnier, Limpalaër, Roux & Berschauer describe Dalliconus edpetuchi from Brasil
in The Festivus v.47 .(see www.sandiegoshellclub.com/festivus
) This Brasilian shell has circulated for many years
as a form of Conus mcgintyi.
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D. edpetuchi holotype MNHN |
January 2015.
Conus(Sciteconus) algoensis norpothi n. ssp. is described by Felix Lorenz in Conchylia 45(1-3) p.51
Available from www. conchbooks.de
January 2015(Update)
Conus conco from Marquesas published by N. Puillandre
and 8 co authors in the on line magazine: Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 80 (2014) 186–192.
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Conus
conco holotype |
Journal
webpage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ympev
NOTE: Due to a procedural error, the attachment to the online version released in August 2014 including this description was not considered valid under ICZN rules. The description was included in an update published in January 2015
January 2015.
New deep water cone described by Manuel Tenorio from New Caledonia published in Xenophora Taxonomy 6.(www.xenophora.com)
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Profundiconus zardoyai Holotype MNHN 10.5mm |
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