Reassessment of multiple species of Gymnelus (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) in Pacific Arctic and boreal regions

Recently described new nominal species and resurrected species in the eelpout genus Gymnelus Reinhardt 1834 were re-assessed for validity using fresh material collected in Pacific Arctic regions and a large body of data from a previous sys-tematic review of the genus. The analysis reported here incl...

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Main Authors: Catherine W. Mecklenburg, M. Eric Anderson
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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Key words
Zoarcidae
Gymnelus
eelpouts
Gymnelus hemifasciatus
Gymnelus viridis
Arctic
boreal Pacific
DNA barcoding
Pacific
Reinhardt
Pacific Arctic
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.696.5408
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2015/f/z03948p278f.pdf
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Summary:Recently described new nominal species and resurrected species in the eelpout genus Gymnelus Reinhardt 1834 were re-assessed for validity using fresh material collected in Pacific Arctic regions and a large body of data from a previous sys-tematic review of the genus. The analysis reported here included both DNA barcodes and morphology. Only two species were validated: G. viridis (Fabricius 1780) and G. hemifasciatus Andriashev 1937. The latter species occurred as two mor-photypes for which there is some evidence of difference in ecological preference, but the available environmental data are not robust enough to firmly identify or verify ecophenotypes.

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