A standardized reanalysis of molecular phylogenetic hypotheses of Gobioidei

Molecular phylogeny of three mudskippers (Gobiidae) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman (Makran)

“…The results are consistent with those of Rüber et al. (), Agorreta and Rüber () and Agorreta et al. (), which used the same genera of mudskippers, but are represented by different species.…”

“…In previous studies dealing with morphological characters, mudskippers have been considered as members of the subfamily Oxudercinae (Murdy, ). However, recent studies based on molecular markers (nuclear and mitochondrial markers) have confirmed the monophyly only for Oxudercinae + Amblyopinae, but not for Oxudercinae or Amblyopinae alone (Rüber et al., ; Agorreta and Rüber, ; Agorreta et al., ). Whole genome sequencing was used to construct a phylogenetic tree for four genera of mudskipper and eight representatives of other vertebrates.…”

Molecular phylogeny of Percomorpha resolves Trichonotus as the sister lineage to Gobioidei (Teleostei: Gobiiformes) and confirms the polyphyly of Trachinoidei

“…1). The resolution of separate Gobiidae and Gobionellidae clades is supported in numerous molecular phylogenetic studies (Thacker 2003(Thacker , 2009Betancur-R. et al, 2014;Agorreta et al, 2013;Tornabene et al, 2013); however, the conversion of phylogenies to classifications in gobies remains contentious (Agorreta and Rüber, 2012). The congruence of morphological and molecular inferences on the relationships of Thasseleotridae demonstrates the value of both approaches in resolving the relationships among the lineages that comprise the traditional Eleotridae.…”

Habitat segregation and cryptic adaptation of species ofPeriophthalmus(Gobioidei: Gobiidae)

“…The genus Periophthalmus is the richest mudskipper genus (Jaafar et al ., ). It is basal to all oxudercine and amblyopine genera so far examined (Thacker, ; Agorreta & Rüber, ; Agorreta et al ., ; Tornabene et al ., ) and includes cryptic species with conserved morphologies, suggestive of a long evolutionary history (>30 M years) in coastal wetlands (Polgar et al ., ). Periophthalmus has the widest geographic distribution, along the African Atlantic Ocean coasts eastward to the Indo‐West‐Pacific region (Polgar et al ., ) and its species live in a range of intertidal and supratidal habitats, from unvegetated mud banks and open tidal mudflats (Baeck et al ., ; Polgar & Crosa, ; Polgar & Bartolino, ; Takita et al ., ) to mangrove forests and freshwater swamps (Larson, ; Polgar et al ., ).…”

“…This definition corresponds to the species of five genera: Boleophthalmus Valenciennes 1837, Periophthalmodon Bleeker 1874, Periophthalmus Bloch & Schneider 1801, Scartelaos Swainson 1839 and Zappa Roberts 1978 (Polgar et al ., 2010), morphologically included in the subfamily Oxudercinae. Several molecular phylogenies, however, show that Oxudercinae is paraphyletic relative to the gobiid subfamily Amblyopinae (worm‐eel gobies) and that both subfamilies are included in a ‘ Periophthalmus lineage’ of gobionelline‐like gobies (Agorreta & Rüber, ; Agorreta et al ., ).…”