Journal
JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
Volume 75, Issue 9, Pages 2197-2208Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02398.x
Keywords
Cobitoidea; Cypriniformes; Ellopostoma; loaches; nuclear gene phylogeny
Categories
Funding
- National Science Foundation [EF 0431326]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Molecular variation in six nuclear genes provides substantive phylogenetic evidence for the recognition of a new cypriniform family, the Ellopostomatidae, to include the enigmatic Southern Asia loach genus Ellopostoma. The current six loach families form a monophyletic group, with the Nemacheilidae as the sister group to Ellopostomatidae; Vaillantellidae forms the sister group to all families exclusive of Botiidae. While the superfamily Cobitoidea includes eight families, the monophyly of this large clade within the Cypriniformes remains a vexing problem despite extensive molecular analyses and is in need of further investigation. (C) 2009 The Authors Journal compilation (C) 2009 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available