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Issue: Vol. 5550 No. 1: 10 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5550.1.30
Page range: 305-313
Abstract views: 136
PDF downloaded: 123

Molecular evidence for clear speciation of Tachysurus adiposalis complex in Northern and Central Taiwan

Institute of Marine Biology; National Taiwan Ocean University; Keelung; 202301; Taiwan; R.O.C.
Institute of Marine Biology; National Taiwan Ocean University; Keelung; 202301; Taiwan; R.O.C.; Center for Excellence of the Oceans; National Taiwan Ocean University; Keelung; 202301; Taiwan; R.O.C.
Pisces Bagridae Tachysurus adiposalis Taiwan molecular evidence molecular phylogenetics

Abstract

Tachysurus adiposalis (Oshima, 1919) belongs to the bagrid catfish genus Tachysurus in Taiwan. To understand the phylogenetic status of this species, this study was planned to use the ND2 gene and D-loop sequences. A total of 14 samples were used in phylogenetic reconstruction under both method of Neighbor-Joining and Maximum-Likelihood. In the molecular phylogenetic tree shows good results in distinguishing each single haplotype for its own represented species. By this study, which indicates that the Tachysurus adiposalis from Nothern Taiwan are the sister clade of the Tachysurus sp.1 from the Central Taiwan with specific mitogenetic distance for further explorations.

 

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