Phylogenetic revision of Gymnotidae (Teleostei: Gymnotiformes), with descriptions of six subgenera.

ABSTRACT: The diversity of gymnotid electric fishes has been intensely studied over the past 25 years, with 35 species named since 1994, compared to 11 species in the previous 236 years. Substantial effort has also been applied in recent years to documenting gymnotid interrelationships, with seven systematic studies published using morphological and molecular datasets. Nevertheless, until now, all gymnotids have been assigned to one of just two supraspecific taxa, the subfamily Electrophorinae with one genus Electrophorus and three valid species and the subfamily Gymnotine also with one genus Gymnotus and 43 valid species. This simple classification has obscured the substantial phenotypic and lineage diversity within the subfamily Gymnotine and hampered ecological and evolutionary studies of gymnoti

SUBMITTER: Craig JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6837465 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature