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Provedor de dados: | 83
País: | Brazil
Título: | Cryptic species of the genus Pimelodella (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the Miranda River, Paraguay River basin, Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul, Central Brazil
Autores: | Souza-Shibatta,Lenice; Pezenti,Larissa Forim; Ferreira,Dhiego Gomes; Almeida,Fernanda Simões de; Sofia,Silvia Helena; Shibatta,Oscar Akio.
Data: | 2013-03-01
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Cytotaxonomy; Cytogenetics; Multivariate morphometrics; RAPD.
Resumo: | Specimens of Pimelodellacaptured in the Miranda River, Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul State, present morphological features that could indicate at least four species. Therefore, karyotype analysis and molecular biology provided evidence that they were only two species, one showing 2n = 46, and the other, 2n = 52 chromosomes, with only 18% genetic similarity. The morphological analysis evidenced that the dorsal filament is a male characteristic and that the upper lobe of the caudal fin was variable and might or might not be elongated in both species. With respect to morphometric characters, the formation of two groups was evident, but with a small overlap of specimens between them. Among the species with filaments on the dorsal fin observed in the Pantanal, the one with the lesser length of adipose fin base is P. griffini, which corresponds to that with 2n = 46 chromosomes, whereas the species P. taenioptera has 2n = 52 chromosomes. Thus, the accurate detection of these cryptic taxonomic units was only possible with the use of various analysis techniques. Furthermore, it is worth noting that the identification of cryptic species is important for obtaining correct estimates of fish diversity in the Pantanal
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252013000100101
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1679-62252013000100012
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Neotropical Ichthyology  v.11 n.1 2013
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess