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Issue: Vol. 3586 No. 1: 14 Dec. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3586.1.6
Page range: 41–54
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 35

Bleeker was right: Revision of the genus Cyclocheilichthys (Bleeker 1859) and resurrection of the genus Anematichthys (Bleeker 1859), based on morphological and molecular data of Southeast Asian Cyprininae (Teleostei, Cypriniformes)

Team “Evo-Devo of Vertebrate Dentition,” Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5242, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Claude Bernard de Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre de Recherches sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CRP2), UMR 7207, Département Histoire de la Terre, 8 rue Buffon, CP 38, Paris cedex 05, France
Team “Evo-Devo of Vertebrate Dentition,” Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5242, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Claude Bernard de Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
Fish Cypriniformes taxonomy morphology molecular phylogeny Cyclocheilichthys

Abstract

The taxonomy within the order Cypriniformes is subject to frequent changes, thanks to the results coming from recentmolecular phylogenies that help understand the Cypriniformes tree of life previously established through morphologicalcharacters. In this paper, we focus on species belonging to the Cyprininae – the largest sub-family among Cypriniformes– and we present both morphological and phylogenetic arguments to revise the taxonomy of the genus Cyclocheilichthys.For morphological investigations, we characterized external traits as well as the postcranial skeleton and theneurocranium. For molecular phylogenies, we used four markers, both mitochondrial and nuclear, to establish aphylogenetic tree. We studied four species currently assigned to the genus Cyclocheilichthys as well as the speciesCosmochilus harmandi and Puntioplites falcifer and we show that the genus Cyclocheilichthys is non-monophyletic asCyclocheilichthys enoplos is closer to C. harmandi and P. falcifer than Cyclocheilichthys armatus, Cyclocheilichthysapogon and Cyclocheilichthys repasson. Finally, we revise the genus Cyclocheilichthys and we propose to split this genusinto two genera: genus Cyclocheilichthys with the species Cyclocheilichthys enoplos and genus Anematichthys with species Anematichthys armatus, Anematichthys apogon and Anematichthys repasson.

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