“…Phylogeographic assessments of freshwater fishes have commonly revealed cryptic species (e.g., Adams et al, 2014;Baumsteiger et al, 2012;Pinacho-Pinacho et al, 2018), thereby improving knowledge of species richness and diversity in aquatic ecosystems globally (Seehausen & Wagner, 2014). In Australia, for example, the number of recognized (but not necessarily described) species increased by 39 between 2002 and 2013 (Allen et al, 2002;Unmack, 2013), with many of the newly defined species revealed by molecular phylogenetic and phylogeographic evidence (Adams et al, 2023). Furthermore, phylogeographic studies have indicated that historical, geological, and/or climatic processes can be determinants of contemporary patterns of biodiversity and distribution across riverine landscapes (e.g., Buckley et al, 2021;Shelley et al, 2020;Waters et al, 2020).…”