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Ragkousis M, Digenis M, Kovačić M, Katsanevakis S, Gerovasileiou V. Rarely Reported Cryptobenthic Fish in Marine Caves of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. JMSE 2021; 9:557. [DOI: 10.3390/jmse9060557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Data on the distribution and ecology of cryptobenthic fish of marine caves in the Mediterranean Sea are extremely scarce but necessary for scientists and marine managers alike in order to understand these fish’s ecological role and assess their conservation status. Broadscale surveys by implementing underwater visual census and photographic sampling in marine caves of the northeastern Mediterranean Sea, within different expeditions during the last 5 years, brought to light new records of eight rarely reported cryptobenthic fish species. To a smaller extent, complementary citizen science data from diving professionals of Crete were used to fill distribution gaps. A total of 36 new records (66 individuals) from 18 marine caves and caverns of the Aegean and northeastern Levantine Seas were assembled, belonging to the gobies Corcyrogobius liechtensteini, Didogobius splechtnai, Gammogobius steinitzi, and Thorogobius ephippiatus, the blenny Microlipophrys nigriceps, the tripterygiid Tripterygion melanurum, the speleophilic bythitid Grammonus ater, and the gobiesocid Lepadogaster cf. lepadogaster. The above species have been rarely reported from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, with D. splechtnai and G. steinitzi being recorded for the first and second time from Greek waters, respectively, while L. cf. lepadogaster constitutes the second record of a clingfish species in a marine cave of the Aegean Sea. Interesting behavioral and ecological habits were also noted for some species, based on in situ observations and photographic evidence. Our study contributes to filling gaps in the knowledge of cave fish diversity and demonstrates that cryptobenthic mobile species in understudied cryptic habitats are more common than previously thought in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Wagner M, Kovačić M, Koblmüller S. Unravelling the taxonomy of an interstitial fish radiation: Three new species of Gouania (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea and redescriptions of G. willdenowi and G. pigra. J Fish Biol 2021; 98:64-88. [PMID: 32985685 PMCID: PMC7821206 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The clingfish (Gobiesocidae) genus Gouania Nardo, 1833 is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea and inhabits, unlike any other vertebrate species in Europe, the harsh intertidal environment of gravel beaches. Following up on a previous phylogenetic study, we revise the diversity and taxonomy of this genus by analysing a comprehensive set of morphological (meristics, morphometrics, microcomputed tomography imaging), geographical and genetic (DNA-barcoding) data. We provide descriptions of three new species, G. adriatica sp. nov., G. orientalis sp. nov. and G. hofrichteri sp. nov., as well as redescriptions of G. willdenowi (Risso, 1810) and G. pigra (Nardo, 1827) and assign neotypes for the latter two species. In addition to elucidating the complex taxonomic situation of Gouania, we discuss the potential of this enigmatic clingfish genus for further ecological, evolutionary and biodiversity studies that might unravel even more diversity in this unique Mediterranean fish radiation.
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- Maximilian Wagner
- Institute of BiologyUniversity of GrazGrazAustria
- Department of BiologyUniversity of AntwerpAntwerpBelgium
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Conway KW, King CD, Summers AP, Kim D, Hastings PA, Moore GI, Iglésias SP, Erdmann MV, Baldwin CC, Short G, Fujiwara K, Trnski T, Voelker G, Rüber L. Molecular Phylogenetics of the Clingfishes (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae)—Implications for Classification. COPEIA 2020. [DOI: 10.1643/ci2020054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Kevin W. Conway
- Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology and Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843; (KWC) ; (CDK) ; and (GV) . Send repr
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology and Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843; (KWC) ; (CDK) ; and (GV) . Send repr
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- Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, Friday Harbor, Washington 98250, and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105;
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- Graduate Degree Program, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208106, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8106;
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- Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093-0244;
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- Fish Section, Department of Aquatic Zoology, Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew St., Welshpool, Western Australia, 6106, and School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia; glenn
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles; Station Marine de Concarneau, Place de la Croix, 29900 Concarneau, France; samuel.iglesi
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- Conservation International Asia-Pacific Marine Program, University of Auckland, 23 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand 1020;
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- Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560;
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- Research Associate, Ichthyology, Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
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- The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University, 1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan;
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- Auckland War Memorial Museum, Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland, New Zealand;
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology and Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843; (KWC) ; (CDK) ; and (GV) . Send repr
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- Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Bernastrasse 15, 3005 Bern, Switzerland;
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Wagner M, Bračun S, Skofitsch G, Kovačić M, Zogaris S, Iglésias SP, Sefc KM, Koblmüller S. Diversification in gravel beaches: A radiation of interstitial clingfish (Gouania, Gobiesocidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2019; 139:106525. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Revised: 05/28/2019] [Accepted: 05/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Conway KW, Kim D, Rüber L, Espinosa Pérez HS, Hastings PA. Molecular systematics of the New World clingfish genus Gobiesox (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) and the origin of a freshwater clade. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2017; 112:138-147. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2016] [Revised: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 04/27/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Conway KW, Bertrand NG, Browning Z, Lancon TW, Clubb FJ. Heterodonty in the New World: An SEM Investigation of Oral Jaw Dentition in the Clingfishes of the Subfamily Gobiesocinae (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae). COPEIA 2015. [DOI: 10.1643/ot-15-234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Fricke R, Wirtz P, Brito A. Diplecogaster tonstricula, a new species of cleaning clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Canary Islands and Senegal, eastern Atlantic Ocean, with a review of theDiplecogaster-ctenocryptaspecies-group. J NAT HIST 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1079659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Levy A, Wirtz P, Floeter S, Almada V. The Lusitania Province as a center of diversification: The phylogeny of the genus Microlipophrys (Pisces: Blenniidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2011; 58:409-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2010] [Revised: 12/02/2010] [Accepted: 12/14/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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