Molecular Identification of the Bonefish Albula esuncula (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific, with Comments on Distribution and Morphology

Pfeiler, Edward; Bitler, Benjamin G.; Ulloa, Raúl; Heiden, Albert M. van der; Hastings, Philip A.

doi:10.1643/cg-07-113

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“…A possessed the 18 characteristic Cyt b nucleotides and one amino acid substitution that distinguish Albula sp. A from A. esuncula (Pfeiler et al , in press). At Mazatlán, two individuals of A. esuncula were found in a sample of 17 fish; these two individuals were removed from further analysis.…”

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“…A and A. esuncula (= Albula sp. C) are sibling species, with K2P genetic distances between the two lineages ranging from 4·9 to 7·0% (Colborn et al , 2001; Pfeiler et al , in press). Although A. esuncula from different geographic regions were used in the two studies (Panama and Mexico, respectively), the K2P distances between Albula sp.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Clarification of the distribution of Albula sp. C supported assigning it the single available name for eastern Pacific bonefishes, Albula esuncula (Garman) (Pfeiler et al , in press). Albula sp.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…C and Albula sp. A co‐occur (Pfeiler et al , in press). Clarification of the distribution of Albula sp.…”

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Speciation and demographic history of the Cortez bonefish, Albula sp. A (Albuliformes: Albulidae), in the Gulf of California inferred from mitochondrial DNA

Pfeiler

Watts

Pugh

et al. 2008

Journal of Fish Biology

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Nucleotide sequence data from a segment of the mitochondrial cytochrome b (Cyt b) gene were used to infer demographic history and examine conditions that may have led to speciation in the Cortez bonefish (Albula sp. A) in the Gulf of California, Mexico, a currently undescribed species of bonefish in the Albula vulpes complex. Analysis of molecular variance in 39 individuals collected from three localities along the eastern gulf coast, over c. 850 km, revealed a lack of population structure among localities (overall F ST ¼ À0Á015), with 100% of the genetic variation distributed within populations. Analysis of combined sequences from these individuals using neutrality tests and the mismatch distribution provided evidence of a population expansion dating to the Pleistocene. The population expansion was supported by maximum likelihood estimates of changes in long-term female effective population size (N ef ). A molecular clock estimate of divergence, provisionally calibrated for the Cyt b gene in Albula, indicates that Albula sp. A and its sister species in the eastern Pacific, Albula esuncula, diverged from a common ancestor c. 5Á0-8Á8 million years ago. This date is about the time the Baja California peninsula separated from mainland Mexico during the formation of the Gulf of California. Oceanographic and ecological changes associated with the opening of the gulf likely provided conditions favourable for adaptive radiation and reproductive isolation, ultimately resulting in the allopatric formation of two separate lineages. The co-occurrence of Albula sp. A and A. esuncula found today in the coastal Pacific waters of northern Mexico is most probably the result of secondary contact after speciation.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…C and Albula sp. A co‐occur (Pfeiler et al , in press). Clarification of the distribution of Albula sp.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Speciation and demographic history of the Cortez bonefish, Albula sp. A (Albuliformes: Albulidae), in the Gulf of California inferred from mitochondrial DNA

Pfeiler

Watts

Pugh

et al. 2008

Journal of Fish Biology

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“…Among them, four species occur in the Indo-Pacific region, A. argentea (Forster in Bloch and Schneider 1801), A. glossodonta (Forsskål, 1775), A. oligolepis Randall 2008, andA. virgata (Jordan andJordan, 1922) (Hidaka et al 2004(Hidaka et al , 2008, whereas A.esuncula (Garman, 1899) and A. pacifica (Beebe, 1942) are known from the eastern Pacific, and A. nemoptera and A. vulpes from the western Atlantic (Smith 2002;Pfeiler 2008;Pfeiler et al 2008). Two other species (Albula sp.…”

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Molecular and morphological evidence for the taxonomic status of a newly reported species ofAlbula(Albuliformes: Albulidae) from Korea and Taiwan

Kwun

Kim

Doiuchi

et al. 2011

Animal Cells and Systems

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To clarify the taxonomic status of five specimens of Albula collected from Korea and Taiwan (Albula sp.), genetic differences among them and other congeneric species were investigated based on mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b sequences. All five specimens of Albula sp. showed identical haplotypes and strongly supported a monophyletic group on phylogenetic analysis. The genetic differences between Albula sp. and ten other species of Albula ranged from 0.100 to 0.164. These values were almost equal to or exceeded the interspecific differences among the latter ten species (0.038Á0.206). Morphological comparisons of Albula sp. and another four Indo-Pacific species, A. argentea, A. glossodonta, A. oligolepis and A. virgata, are also presented. Albula sp. could be distinguished from the latter four species in their numbers of pored lateral-line scales, anal fin rays and vertebrae, as well as in several proportional measurements.

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Surveying Nearshore Biodiversity

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Pohle

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Life in the World's Oceans

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Molecular Identification of the Bonefish Albula esuncula (Albuliformes: Albulidae) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific, with Comments on Distribution and Morphology

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Speciation and demographic history of the Cortez bonefish, Albula sp. A (Albuliformes: Albulidae), in the Gulf of California inferred from mitochondrial DNA

Speciation and demographic history of the Cortez bonefish, Albula sp. A (Albuliformes: Albulidae), in the Gulf of California inferred from mitochondrial DNA

Molecular and morphological evidence for the taxonomic status of a newly reported species ofAlbula(Albuliformes: Albulidae) from Korea and Taiwan

Surveying Nearshore Biodiversity

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