Revision of the Genus Chiasmodon (Acanthomorpha: Chiasmodontidae), with the Description of Two New Species

Melo, Marcelo R. S.

doi:10.1643/ci-08-048

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“…1 c ) and fanfishes (Bramidae), which have been interpreted as an antipredation device [37]; the highly distensible stomachs of swallowers (Chiasmodontidae; Fig. 1 e ), which allow members of the group to consume prey considerably longer than their own bodies [38]; the unusual ecology of driftfishes (Nomeidae; Fig. 1 l ), which hover around and under floating logs, jellyfishes, and seaweed as juveniles, including particularly notable symbioses between juvenile Nomeus gronouvii and a pelagic cnidarian (Portuguese Man-of-War) [39]; and the preferred habitat of juvenile squaretails (Tetragonuridae; Fig.…”

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Evolutionary Origin of the Scombridae (Tunas and Mackerels): Members of a Paleogene Adaptive Radiation with 14 Other Pelagic Fish Families

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Uncertainties surrounding the evolutionary origin of the epipelagic fish family Scombridae (tunas and mackerels) are symptomatic of the difficulties in resolving suprafamilial relationships within Percomorpha, a hyperdiverse teleost radiation that contains approximately 17,000 species placed in 13 ill-defined orders and 269 families. Here we find that scombrids share a common ancestry with 14 families based on (i) bioinformatic analyses using partial mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences from all percomorphs deposited in GenBank (10,733 sequences) and (ii) subsequent mitogenomic analysis based on 57 species from those targeted 15 families and 67 outgroup taxa. Morphological heterogeneity among these 15 families is so extraordinary that they have been placed in six different perciform suborders. However, members of the 15 families are either coastal or oceanic pelagic in their ecology with diverse modes of life, suggesting that they represent a previously undetected adaptive radiation in the pelagic realm. Time-calibrated phylogenies imply that scombrids originated from a deep-ocean ancestor and began to radiate after the end-Cretaceous when large predatory epipelagic fishes were selective victims of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. We name this clade of open-ocean fishes containing Scombridae “Pelagia” in reference to the common habitat preference that links the 15 families.

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Evolutionary Origin of the Scombridae (Tunas and Mackerels): Members of a Paleogene Adaptive Radiation with 14 Other Pelagic Fish Families

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“…DNA barcodes in BOLD for C.niger from the Atlantic are approximately 7.5% different, which provides empirical support for the validity of C. subniger as proposed by Melo (2009). Specimens collected at 183 m represent a new minimum depth record for the species (Melo 2009. Distribution.…”

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“…Kukuev (2009) andProkofiev (2010) suggested that C. subniger is a synonym of C. niger Johnson 1864 based on the absence of "significant distinctions between specimens from the equatorial and southeastern Pacific and from other regions of the World Ocean." In contrast, Melo (2009) used several morphometric and meristic characters to clearly separate C. subniger (eastern Pacific), from C.niger (Atlantic Ocean). DNA barcodes for our specimens of C. subniger match those for C. subniger from the eastern Pacific in the BOLD database.…”

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Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B/O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNA-barcoded checklist

Robertson

Angulo

Baldwin

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An annotated and photographically illustrated checklist with DNA barcodes of the species of bony fishes collected during a month-long research cruise of the Spanish Research vessel B/O Miguel Oliver is presented. The vessel made trawls on the continental shelf of the Pacific coast of Central America, in November-December 2010, at depths of 108–1625 m. This list, based on 707 specimens (of a total of 876 specimens collected during the whole expedition), includes 129 species belonging to 15 orders, 61 families, and 97 genera. New information is presented on the geographical distributions of more than a third of those species, with 29 species (22.4%) representing new records from Central American waters and 17 species (13.2%) having expanded latitudinal ranges. Data on capture depths demonstrate increased depth ranges due to new minimum and/or maximum known depths for 31 species, i.e. 24% of those captured. Tissue samples from frozen specimens were used to obtain DNA barcodes of 682 (96.5%) individuals belonging to 118 species (91.4% of those recorded here), which have been made publically available in Genbank. Those data include barcodes for 84 species (65.1% of the total collected, and 77.1% of those for which barcodes were obtained) and 30 genera (30.9% of those collected) for which no species barcodes have been previously published. Barcodes of 54 species represent the first genetic sequences of any type published for those species. The abundance of new data indicate that there is still much to learn about the composition and geographical and depth distributions of the fish fauna of the shelf edge and continental slope of this region.

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“…Dysalotus and Kali are the two bathypelagic genera of the family Chiasmodontidae, which also includes the mesopelagic genera Chiasmodon and Pseudoscopelus (Melo, , , ). The three species of Dysalotus are more frequently found at depths from 1000 to 2500 m. Juveniles of D .…”

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“…Dysalotus MacGilchrist 1905 is a very distinctive member of the deep‐sea fish family Chiasmodontidae and can be easily recognized within the family by the presence of enlarged, conspicuous prickles on the posterior half of the body, a ventral chin knob at the symphysis of the dentaries and a supramaxilla (Johnson & Cohen, ; Melo, , , ). The genus Dysalotus was erected by MacGilchrist () to accommodate Dysalotus alcocki MacGilchrist 1905.…”

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A review of the genus Dysalotus (Percomorphacea: Chiasmodontidae), with the description of Dysalotus pouliulii sp. nov.

Melo

2016

Journal of Fish Biology

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A new species of Dysalotus (family Chiasmodontidae) known only from off the Hawaiian archipelago is described here as Dysalotus pouliulii sp. nov. It differs from all other species of Dysalotus in having a greater number of teeth on the premaxilla (151-198 v. 60-138) and dentary (136-199 v. 76-132) and in a shorter upper jaw [51·9-54·9% of head length (L ) v. 62·4-74·4% L ] and lower jaw (64·8-67·4% in L v. 75·3-88·1% in L ). A key for the species of Dysalotus and an updated distribution map are provided. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E9B5F1DC-52E0-4F53-9109-2A8E252AE8CE.

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Revision of the Genus Chiasmodon (Acanthomorpha: Chiasmodontidae), with the Description of Two New Species

Cited by 22 publications

References 11 publications

Evolutionary Origin of the Scombridae (Tunas and Mackerels): Members of a Paleogene Adaptive Radiation with 14 Other Pelagic Fish Families

Evolutionary Origin of the Scombridae (Tunas and Mackerels): Members of a Paleogene Adaptive Radiation with 14 Other Pelagic Fish Families

Deep-water bony fishes collected by the B/O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America: an annotated, illustrated and DNA-barcoded checklist

A review of the genus Dysalotus (Percomorphacea: Chiasmodontidae), with the description of Dysalotus pouliulii sp. nov.

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