[Focus on fish systematic, phylogeny, synonymy and genetics]
2020 latest news (May)
- McCraney, W.T., Thacker, C.E. & Alfaro, M.E. (2020): Supermatrix phylogeny resolves goby lineages and reveals unstable root of Gobiaria.
- [update] Ottoni, F.P., Katz, A.M. & Bragança, P.H.N. (2020): Correction of the type locality of Australoheros ipatinguensis (Teleostei: Cichlidae).
- [update] Britz, R., Sudasinghe, H., Sykes, D. & Ranasinghe, R.H.T. (2020): Ophichthys desilvai, a poorly known synbranchid eel from Sri Lanka (Teleostei: Synbranchidae).
- Costa, W.J.E.M., Katz, A.M., Mattos, J.L.O., Amorim, P.F., Mesquita, B.O., Vilardo, P.J. & Barbosa, M.A. (2020): Historical review and redescription of three poorly known species of the catfish genus Trichomycterus from south-eastern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae).
- [update] Costa, G.C. & Schlupp, I. (2020): Placing the hybrid origin of the asexual Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) based on historical climate data.
- [update] Motta-Neto, C.C., Shibatta, O.A., Souza, A.S., Souza Rosa, R. & Molina, W.F. (2020): Inconspicuous genetic and morphological patterns challenge the taxonomic status of endemic species Bodianus insularis (Labridae).
- Shelley, J.J., David, B.O., Thacker, C.E., Hicks, A.S., Jarvis, M.G. & Unmack, P.J. (2020): Phylogeography of the Cran’s bully Gobiomorphus basalis (Gobiiformes: Eleotridae) and an analysis of species boundaries within the New Zealand radiation of Gobiomorphus.
- Sterling, K.A., Nielsen, S.V., Brown, A.J., Warren, Jr. M.L. & Noonan, B.P. (2020): Cryptic diversity among Yazoo Darters (Percidae: Etheostoma raneyi) in disjunct watersheds of northern Mississippi.
- Argolo, L.A., López-Fernández, H., Batalha-Filho, H. & Mello Affonso, P.R.A. (2020): Unraveling the systematics and evolution of the ‘Geophagus’ brasiliensis (Cichliformes: Cichlidae) species complex.
- [update] Bronaugh, W.M., Swartz, E.R. & Sidlauskas, B.L. (2019): Between an ocean and a high place: coastal drainage isolation generates endemic cryptic species in the Cape kurper Sandelia capensis (Anabantiformes: Anabantidae), Cape Region, South Africa.
- García-De León, F.J., Dillman, C.B., De Los Santos Camarillo, A.B., George, A.L., Camarena-Rosales, F., De Los Angeles Barriga-Sosa, I. & Mayden, R.L. (2020): First steps towards the identification of evolutionarily significant units in Mexican native trout: An assessment of microsatellite variation.
- Balushkin, A.V. (2020): Findings of Armless Flounders Family Achiropsettidae at the Underwater Pulkovo Ridge (Southern Pacific Ocean).
- Jawad, L.A. & Alwan, N. (2020): Osteological Characters to Define Six Species of the Capoeta damascina Species Complex (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae).
- Voskoboinikova, O.S., Kudryavtseva, O.Y., Orlov, A.M., Orlova, S.Y., Nazarkin, M.V., Chernova, N.V. & Maznikova, O.A. (2020): Relationships and Evolution of Lumpsuckers of the Family Cyclopteridae (Cottoidei).
- Kuwamura, T., Sunobe, T., Sakai, Y., Kadota, T. & Sawada, K. (2020): Hermaphroditism in fishes: an annotated list of species, phylogeny, and mating system.
- Arroyave, J., Denton, J.S.S. & Stiassny, M.L.J. (2020): Pattern and timing of diversification in the African freshwater fish genus Distichodus (Characiformes: Distichodontidae).
- Perea, S., Sousa-Santos, C., Robalo, J. & Doadrio, I. (2020): Multilocus phylogeny and systematics of Iberian endemic Squalius (Actinopterygii, Leuciscidae).
- Mizumachi, K. & Endo, H. (2020): Larvae and juveniles of two Brotula species (Ophidiiformes: Ophidiidae) collected from the Northwest Pacific Ocean.
2020 latest news (April)
- Sudasinghe, H., Pethiyagoda, R., Meegaskumbura, M., Maduwage, K. & Britz, R. (2020): Channa kelaartii, a valid species of dwarf snakehead from Sri Lanka and southern peninsular India (Teleostei: Channidae).
- Van Steenberge, M.W., Vanhove, M.P.M., Chocha Manda, A., Larmuseau, M.H.D., Swart, B.L., Khang’Mate, F., Arndt, A., Hellemans, B., Van Houdt, J., Micha, J.-C., Koblmüller, S., Roodt-Wilding, R., Volckaert, F.A.M. (2020): Unravelling the evolution of Africa’s drainage basins through a widespread freshwater fish, the African sharptooth catfish Clarias gariepinus.
- Parenti, P. (2020): An annotated checklist of fishes of the family Sciaenidae.
- Sungur, S. (2020): Oxynoemacheilus kosswigi a Junior Synonym of O. seyhanensis (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae).
- [update] Hata, H. & Motomura, H. (2019): Validity of Sardinella dayi Regan 1917 and redescription of Sardinella jussieui (Valenciennes 1847) (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Clupeidae).
- [update] Imamura, H. & Moore, G.I. (2020): Taxonomic revision of the flathead genus Leviprora Whitley 1931, with recognition of Leviprora semermis (De Vis 1883) as a valid species (family Platycephalidae).
- [update] Sakai, H., Watanabe, K. & Goto, A. (2020): A revised generic taxonomy for Far East Asian minnow Rhynchocypris and dace Pseudaspius.
- Jeon, Y.S., Ko, M.-H., Vasil’eva, E.D., Myung, R.-Y. & Won, Y.-J. (2020): Genetic patterns reveal northward range expansion and cryptic diversity in Nalbant’s spined loach, Cobitis nalbanti sensu lato (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitidae).
- Shelley, J.J., Swearer, S.E., Dempster, T., Adams, M., Le Feuvre, M.C., Hammer, M.P. & Unmack, P.J. (2020): Plio-Pleistocene sea-level changes drive speciation of freshwater fishes in north-western Australia.
- [overlooked] Sheiko, B.A. (2019): Comments on the nomenclature of genus- and family-series taxa of notothenioid fishes (Perciformes, Notothenioidei).
- Pogonoski, J.J., Gon, O. & Appleyard, S.A. (2020): Redescription and distributional range extension of the Speckled Siphonfish, Siphamia guttulata (Pisces: Apogonidae).
- Muñoz-Ramírez, C.P., Briones, R., Colin, N., Fierro, P., Górski, K., Jara, A. & Manosalva, A. (2020): A Century after! Rediscovery of the ancient catfish Diplomystes Bleeker 1858 (Siluriformes: Diplomystidae) in coastal river basins of Chile and its implications for conservation.
- Liedke, A.M.R., Pinheiro, H.T., Floeter, S.R. & Bernardi, G. (2020): Phylogeography of the banded butterflyfish, Chaetodon striatus, indicates high connectivity between biogeographic provinces and ecosystems in the western Atlantic.
- [update] Rojo, J.H., Fernández, D.A., Figueroa, D.E. & Boy, C.C. (2020): Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between diadromous and landlocked puyen Galaxias maculatus.
- [update] De Cahsan, B., Nagel, R., Schedina, I.M., King, J.J., Bianco, P.G., Tiedemann, R. & Ketmaier, V. (2020): Phylogeography of the European brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri) and the European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) species pair based on mitochondrial data.
- Rabosky, D.L. (2020): Speciation rate and the diversity of fishes in freshwaters and the oceans.
- [update] Hayes, M.M., Paz, H.J., Stout, C.C., Werneke, D.C. & Armbruster, J.W. (2020): A hotspot atop: rivers of the Guyana Highlands hold high diversity of endemic pencil catfish (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes).
- Mitsui, S., Strüssmann, C.A., Yokota, M. & Yamamoto, Y. (2020): Comparative otolith morphology and species identification of clupeids from Japan.
- Imamura, H. & Hoese, D.F. (2020): Insidiator Jordan and Snyder 1900, a valid genus of the family Platycephalidae (Scorpaeniformes).
- Kottelat, M. (2020): Nomenclatural status and possible identity of Aperioptus pictorius (Teleostei: Gonorynchidae [?] and Cobitidae).
- Kawarada, S., Imamura, H., Narimatsu, Y. & Shinohara, G. (2020): Taxonomic revision of the genus Lycenchelys (Osteichthyes: Zoarcidae) in Japanese waters.
- Bohlen, J., Dvorák, T., Šlechta, V. & Šlechtová, V. (2020): Sea water shaping the freshwater biota: Hidden diversity and biogeographic history in the Paracanthocobitis zonalternans species complex (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae) in western Southeast Asia.
- Bragança, P.H.N., Van Zeeventer, R.N., Bills, R., Tweddle, D. & Chakona, A. (2020): Diversity of the southern Africa Lacustricola Myers, 1924 and redescription of Lacustricola johnstoni (Günther, 1894) and Lacustricola myaposae (Boulenger, 1908) (Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae).
2020 latest news (March)
- Bellia, E., Cerasa, G., Cigna, V., Lo Brutto, S. & Massa, B. (2020): Epinephelus sicanus (Doderlein, 1882) (Perciformes: Serranidae: Epinephelinae), a valid species of grouper from the Mediterranean Sea.
- Chanet, J., Mondéjar-Fernández, J. & Lecointre, G. (2020): Flatfishes interrelationships revisited based on anatomical characters.
- Ramos, T.P.A., Neto, L.F.B., Ferreira, K.C.F. & Barbosa, J.E.L. (2020): Redescription of Parotocinclus haroldoi Garavello, 1988 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), Northeastern Brazil.
- Zavala-Muñoz, F., Bustos, C.A., Landaeta, M.F. & Konstantinidis, P. (2020): Larval development and osteology of Callanthias platei (Teleostei: Callanthiidae) from Desventuradas Islands, South Pacific.
- Zawadzki, C.H., Oliveira, R.R., Santos Oliveira, A. & Rapp Py-Daniel, L. (2020): Redescription of Hypostomus carinatus (Steindachner 1881) (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Amazonas basin in Brazil.
- Hasan, M.E., Durand, J.-D. & Iwatsuki, Y. (2020): Acanthopagrus datnia (Hamilton, 1822), a senior synonym of Acanthopagrus longispinnis (Valenciennes, 1830) (Perciformes: Sparidae).
- McKeown, N.J., Gwilliam, M.P., Healey, A.J.E., Skujina, I., Potts, W.M., Sauer, W.H.H. & Shaw, P.W. (2020): Deep phylogeographic structure may indicate cryptic species within the Sparid genus Spondyliosoma.
- Maniglia, T.C., Gomes, V.N., Oliveira, I.J., Agostinho, C.S., Prioli, S.M.A.P. & Prioli, A.J. (2020): Genetic evidence for a species complex within the piranha Serrasalmus maculatus (Characiformes, Serrasalmidae) from three Neotropical river basins based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.
- Mehraban, H., Esmaeili, H.R., Zarei, F., Ebrahimi, M. & Gholamhosseini, A. (2020): Genetic diversification, population structure, and geophylogeny of the Scarface rockskipper Istiblennius pox (Teleostei: Blenniidae) in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea.
- Morishita, S., Miki, R., Wada, H., Itou, M. & Motomura, H. (2020): Morphological comparisons of Sphyraena qenie with S. putnamae, with a revised key to Indo-Pacific species of Sphyraena lacking gill rakers (Sphyraenidae).
- Bae, S.E., Kim, E.-M., Park, J.Y. & Kim, J.-K. (2020): Population genetic structure of the grass puffer (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) in the northwestern Pacific revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences and microsatellite loci.
- Silva, R., Pedraza-Marrón, C.R., Sampaio, I., Betancur, R.R., Gomes, G. & Schneider, H. (2020): New insights about species delimitation in red snappers (Lutjanus purpureus and L. campechanus) using multilocus data.
- Sudasinghe, H., Adamson, E.A.S., Ranasinghe, R.H.T., Meegaskumbura, M., Ikebe, C. & Britz, R. (2020): Unexpected species diversity within Sri Lanka’s snakehead fishes of the Channa marulius group (Teleostei: Channidae).
2020 latest news (February)
- Ballesteros-Córdova, C.A., Ruiz-Campos, G., Sánchez-Gonzáles, S. & Varela-Romero, A. (2020): Morphometric and meristic characterization of populations of the Gila minacae complex (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico.
- [update] Goto, A., Yokoyama, R., Kinoshita, I. & Sakai, H. (2019): Japanese catadromous fourspine sculpin, Rheopresbe kazika (Jordan & Starks) (Pisces: Cottidae), transferred from the genus Cottus.
- Sholihah, A., Delrieu-Trottin, E., Sukmono, T., Dahruddin, H., Risdawati, R., Elvyra, R., Wibowo, A., Kustiati, K., Busson, F., Sauri, S., Nurhaman, U., Dounias, E., Zein, M.S.A., Fitriana, Y., Utama, I.V., Muchlisin, Z.A., Agnèse, J.-F., Hanner, R., Wowor, D., Steinke, D., Keith, P., Rüber, L. & Hubert, N. (2020): Disentangling the taxonomy of the subfamily Rasborinae (Cypriniformes, Danionidae) in Sundaland using DNA barcodes.
- Faircloth, B.C., Alda, F., Hoekzema, K., Burns, M.D., Oliveira, C., Albert, J.S., Melo, B.F., Ochoa, L.E., Roxo, F.F., Chakrabarty, P., Sidlauskas, B.L. & Alfaro, M.E. (2020): A Target Enrichment Bait Set for Studying Relationships among Ostariophysan Fishes.
- Afrand, M., Sourinejad, I., Fazeli, A.A.S., Akbarzadeh, A., Yeganeh, L.P., Sadeghi, M. & Azarbaijani, R. (2020): Morphological identification and molecular validation of anchovies (Engraulidae) in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea.
- Harries, D., Arbenz , T., Dahanukar, N., Raghavan, R., Tringham, M., Rangad, D. & Proudlove, G. (2019): The world’s largest known subterranean fish: a discovery in Meghalaya (NE India) of a cave-adapted fish related to the Golden Mahseer, Tor putitora (Hamilton 1822).
- [update] Queiroz, L.J., Cardoso, Y., Jacot-des-Combes, C., Bahechar, I.A., Lucena, C.A:, Rapp Py-Daniel, L., Sarmento Soares, L.M., Nylinder, S., Oliveira, C., Parente, T.E., Torrente-Vilara, G., Covain, R., Buckup, P. & Montoya-Burgos, J.I. (2019): Evolutionary units delimitation and continental multilocus phylogeny of the hyperdiverse catfish genus Hypostomus.
- [update] García-Machado, E., Léon, J.L.P., Gutiérrez-Costa, M.A., Michel-Salzat, A., Germon, I. & Casane, D. (2019): Phylogeographic evidence that the distribution of cryptic euryhaline species in the Gambusia punctata species group in Cuba was shaped by the archipelago geological history.
- Ochoa, L.E., Datovo, A., DoNascimiento, C., Roxo, F.F., Sabaj, M.H., Chang, J., Melo, B.F., Silva, G.S.C., Foresti, F., Alfaro, M. & Oliveira, C. (2020): Phylogenomic analysis of trichomycterid catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) inferred from ultraconserved elements.
- Nguyen, H.-T.T., Dang, B.T., Glenner, H. & Geffen, A.J. (2020): Cophylogenetic analysis of the relationship between anemonefish Amphiprion (Perciformes: Pomacentridae) and their symbiotic host anemones (Anthozoa: Actiniaria).
- Gill, A.C. & Michalski, S. (2020): Osteological evidence for monophyly of the Leiognathidae (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha: Acanthuriformes).
- De Cahsan, B., Nagel, R., Schedina, I.M., King, J.J., Bianco, P.G., Tiedemann, R. & Ketmaier, V. (2020): Phylogeography of the European brook lamprey (Lampetra planeri) and the European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) species pair based on mitochondrial data.
- Hernández-Álvarez, C., Bayona-Vásquez, N.J., Domínguez-Domínguez, O., Uribe-Alcocer, M. & Díaz-Jaimes, P. (2020): Phylogeography of the Pacific Red Snapper (Lutjanus peru) and Spotted Rose Snapper (Lutjanus guttatus) in the Inshore Tropical Eastern Pacific.
- Okazaki, T., Stevenson, D.E., Kai, Y., Ueda, Y., Hamatsu, T. & Yamashita, Y. (2020): Genetic population structure and demographic history of a pelagic lumpsucker, Aptocyclus ventricosus.
- Healey, A.J.E., Farthing, M.M., Nunoo, F.K.E., Potts, W.M., Sauer, W.H.H., Skujina, I., King, N., de Becquevort, S., Shaw, P.W. & McKeown, N.J. (2020): Genetic analysis provides insights into species distribution and population structure in East Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus and T. capensis).
2020 latest news (January)
- Granados-Amores, E., Granados-Amores, J., Zavala-Leal, O.I- & Flores-Ortega, J.R. (2020): Geometric morphometrics in the sulcus acusticus of the sagittae otolith as tool to discriminate species of the genus Centropomus (Centropomidae: Perciformes) from the southeastern Gulf of California.
- Cabezas, M.P., Lasso-Alcalá, O.M., Xavier, R. & Jowers, M.J. (2020): First genetic record of the non-native muzzled blenny Omobranchus punctatus (Teleostei: Blenniidae) in the Atlantic Coast of Central and South America.
- Gavazzoni, M., Pavanelli, C.S., Graça, W.J., Melo, B.F., Gubiani, É.A. & Margarido, V.P. (2020): Detection of natural hybridization and delimitation of two closely related operational taxonomic units of the Astyanax fasciatus (Teleostei: Characidae) complex through integrative approaches.
- Shimose, T., Suzuki, N. & Iwatsuki, Y. (2020): Pristipomoides amoenus (Snyder 1911), a valid species of jobfish (Pisces, Lutjanidae), with comparisons to P. argyrogrammicus (Valenciennes 1832).
- Kumari, K., Manas, H. M, Sinha, A., Koushlesh, S.K., Sarkar, S.D., Borah, S., BaItha, R., Behera, B.K. & Das, B.K. (2020): Genetic differentiation and phylogenetic relationship of 11 Asian Sisorinae genera (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) with new record of Pseudolaguvia foveolata.
- Ríos, N., Casanova, A., Hermida, M., Pardo, B.G., Martínez, P., Bouza, C. & García, G. (2020): Population Genomics in Rhamdia quelen (Heptapteridae, Siluriformes) Reveals Deep Divergence and Adaptation in the Neotropical Region.
- Burns, M.D. & Bloom, D.D. (2020): Migratory lineages rapidly evolve larger body sizes than non-migratory relatives in ray-finned fishes.
- Kadarusman, Sugeha, H.Y., Pouyaud, L., Hocdé, R., Hismayasari, I.B., Gunaisah, E., Widiarto, S.B., Arafat, G., Widyasari, F., Mouillot, D. & Paradis, E. (2020): A thirteen-million-year divergence between two lineages of Indonesian coelacanths.
- Dorini, B.F., Ribeiro-Silva, L.R., Foresti, F., Oliveira, C. & Melo, B.F. (2020): Molecular phylogenetics provides a novel hypothesis of chromosome evolution in Neotropical fishes of the genus Potamorhina (Teleostei, Curimatidae).
- Akamatsu, Y., Kume, G., Gotou, M., Kono, T., Fujii, T., Inui, R. & Kurita, Y. (2020): Using environmental DNA analyses to assess the occurrence and abundance of the endangered amphidromous fish Plecoglossus altivelis ryukyuensis.
- [update] Zawadzki, C.H., Tencatt, L.F.C. & Britski, H.A. (2019): Taxonomic revision of Hypostomus albopunctatus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) reveals a new piece of the Hypostomus jigsaw in the upper Río Paraná basin.
- [update] Barbosa, C., Garcez, D.K., Volcan, M.V. & Robe, L.J. (2019): Evidences for genetic differentiation within the highly endemic and endangered annual fish Austrolebias nigrofasciatus (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae).
- [update] Hashimoto, S., Rapp Py-Daniel, L.H. & Batista, J.S. (2019): A molecular assessment of species diversity in Tympanopleura and Ageneiosus catfishes (Auchenipteridae: Siluriformes).
- Vaz, D.F.B. & Hilton, E.J. (2020): The caudal skeleton of Batrachoidiformes (Teleostei: Percomorphacea): a study of morphological diversity, intraspecific variation, and phylogenetic inferences.
- Yamamoto, S., Morita, K., Kikko, T., Kawamura, K., Sato, S. & Gwo, J.-C. (2019): Phylogeography of a salmonid fish, masu salmon Oncorhynchus masou subspecies-complex, with disjunct distributions across the temperate northern Pacific.
- Barros-García, D., Froufe, E., Bañón, R., Arronte, J.C., Baldó, F. & De Carlos, A. (2019): Phylogeography highlights two different Atlantic/Mediterranean lineages and a phenotypic latitudinal gradient for the Deep-Sea Morid Codling Lepidion lepidion (Gadiformes: Moridae).
- McLeish, J., Briers, R.A., Dodd, J.A. & Rueckert, S. (2020): First genetic evidence that invasive bullhead (Cottus L. 1758) in Scotland is of English origin and the difficulty of resolving the European Cottus species taxonomy.