Sicyopterus garra Hora, 1925, a valid species of sicydiine goby from the Andaman Islands, India.

Autor: Praveenraj J; Division of Fisheries Science, Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, India., Kiruba-Sankar R; Division of Fisheries Science, Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, India., Saravanan K; Division of Fisheries Science, Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, India., Thackeray T; Thackeray Wildlife Foundation, Mumbai, India., Singh P; Zoological Survey of India, Freshwater Fish Section, Kolkata, India., Knight JDM; Impact Assessment Division, Ministry of Environment and Forest, New Delhi, India., Keith P; Aquatic Communities Department, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of fish biology [J Fish Biol] 2022 Nov; Vol. 101 (5), pp. 1189-1198. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 05.
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15189
Abstrakt: Sicyopterus garra Hora, 1925 from the insular streams of South Andaman Islands was synonymized with Sicyopterus microcephalus described from Java, South East Asia and has retained this taxonomic status since then. Recent collections of Sicyopterus from the type locality of S. garra and the examination of syntypes of this species revealed significant morphological and genetic differences from S. microcephalus and the other Sicyopterus species with papillae on upper lip. S. garra is thus a valid species and not a synonym of S. microcephalus. S. garra differs from S. microcephalus in having fewer lateral scales 53-59 vs. 57-68, fewer zigzag series (12-14 vs. 13-16), a longer caudal peduncle length (16-21 vs. 13-17), and by having a high percentage of divergence in COI gene (5.5%-5.8%).
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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