“…To test the monophyly of the Sciaenidae group from the Caeté estuary, phylogenetic trees were generated which included members of six other Perciformes families, the 16S sequences needed being retrieved from the GenBank for species of Nototheniidae (Richie et al;1997), Cichlidae (Farias et al, 1999), Centropomidae (Tringali et al, 1999), Scaridae (Streelman et al, 2002); Sparidae (Hanel and Sturmbauer, 2000) and Serranidae (Craig et al, 2001). Alternate tree topologies were compared statistically using the topology-dependent tail permutation tests (T-PTP) with 1000 replicates (Archie, 1989;Faith, 1991).…”