Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling
Abstract
The first complete molecular phylogeny is proposed for the family Pleuronectidae. New classification of the family Pleuronectidae is based on molecular evidence. Several diagnostic morphological characters are proposed for pleuronectid taxa. Previous morphology-based phylogeny of Pleuronectidae includes many homoplasies. Molecular phylogeny provides evidence for a new species in the genus Platichthys.
- Publication:
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
- Pub Date:
- August 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.014
- Bibcode:
- 2018MolPE.125..147V
- Keywords:
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- Flatfish systematics;
- Character reassessment;
- Synapomorphies;
- Species tree;
- MrBayes;
- BEAST2;
- StarBEAST;
- Stepping stone analysis;
- Bayes factors;
- Compositional heterogeneity