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Issue: Vol. 4369 No. 2: 4 Jan. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4369.2.7
Page range: 270–280
Abstract views: 89
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Systematics of the combtooth blenny clade Omobranchus (Blenniidae: Omobranchini), with notes on early life history stages

Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, 2003 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, 2003 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA Department of Biology, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 56301, USA.
Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, 2003 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Conservation Sciences Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, 2003 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science and Fisheries Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya, Trang Campus, Sikao, Trang 92150, Thailand
Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, 2003 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA Conservation Sciences Graduate Program, University of Minnesota, 2003 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
Pisces phylogeny taxonomy DNA barcoding larvae Thai-Malay Peninsula Enchelyurus

Abstract

The combtooth blenny (Blenniidae) genus Omobranchus contains small, cryptobenthic fishes common to nearshore habitats throughout the Indo-West Pacific. Recent molecular systematic studies have resolved Omobranchus as monophyletic but little research has been done to resolve species-level relationships. Herein, phylogenetic analyses of one mitochondrial (CO1) and four nuclear (ENC1, myh6, sreb2, and tbr1) genes provide evidence for the monophyly of Omobranchus and support for the elongatus and banditus species group. Sampling of multiple individuals from widespread species (O. ferox, O. punctatus, and O. elongatus) suggested that the Thai-Malay Peninsula is a phylogeographic break that may be a historic barrier to gene flow. Additionally, common meristics and other morphological characters are used to describe an early life history stage of O. ferox and O. punctatus.

 

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