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Issue: Vol. 5501 No. 3: 2 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5501.3.2
Page range: 425-446
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Mitochondrial DNA-based reassessment of Antennablennius Fowler (Blenniidae: Salariini) from the north-western Indian Ocean, with resurrection of A. persicus (Regan)

Department of Biology; Faculty of Science; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad; Iran
Station of Naturalists; Omsk; Russia
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum; Department of Marine Zoology; Ichthyology Section; Senckenberganlage 25; 60325 Frankfurt am Main; Germany
Bell Museum of Natural History; University of Minnesota; 2088 Larpenteur Ave.; St Paul; MN 55113; USA
Department of Biology; Faculty of Science; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad; Iran; Rodentology Research Department; Institute of Applied Zoology; Faculty of Sciences; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad; Iran
Department of Biology; Faculty of Science; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad; Iran; Research Department of Zoological Innovations; Institute of Applied Zoology; Faculty of Science; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad; Mashhad; Iran
Pisces taxonomy phylogenetic analysis distribution Gulf of Oman Socotra

Abstract

Seven Operational Taxonomic Units within the blenniid genus Antennablennius are recognised from the north-western Indian Ocean, based on the Cytochrome oxidase-c subunit I gene (CO1). Five of them can be referred to nominal species with certainty. Two additional distinct lineages originate from the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and the Socotra Archipelago. They were initially, morphologically, identified as A. adenensis Fraser-Brunner, 1951, yet could hitherto not be referred to this species with certainty, requiring further genetic data. Detailed descriptions accompanied by photographs are provided for six species, including A. adenensis. Antennablennius persicus (Regan, 1905) is resurrected from the synonymy of A. bifilum (Günther, 1861) and re-described based on specimens from the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, increasing the number of valid species in the genus to eight. The former differs from the latter species in details of morphology and coloration, supported by genetic data. A revised key to all species of the genus is included. A phylogenetic investigation of the genus based on Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Bayesian Inference (BI) analyses of the CO1 data is presented for the first time.

 

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