Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of the poecilioid fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-53

  Ghedotti, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anablepidae; Aplocheilichthyinae; Biogeography; Gonopodium; Morphology; Phylogeny; Poeciliidae; Poeciliinae; Poecilioidea; Procatopodinae; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

ANABLEPIDAE; ANABLEPINAE; APLOCHEILICHTHYS SPILAUCHEN; CYPRINODONTIDAE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; LAMPRICHTHYS; MICROPANCHAX; OXYZYGONECTINAE; PISCES; POECILIIDAE; TELEOSTEI; TOMEURUS; TOMEURUS GRACILIS;

EID: 0034349783     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/zjls.1999.0213     Document Type: Article

References (110)

1. Agassiz JLR. 1853. Recent researches of Professor Agassiz. American Journal of Science 16: 134-136.
2. Ahl E. 1924. Neue afrikanische Zahnkarpfen aus dem zoologischen Museum Berlin. Zoologischer Anzeiger 61(3-4): 135-136.
3. Ahl E. 1928. Beiträge zur Systematik der africanischen Zahnkarpfen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 79(3-4): 115-116.
4. Alvarez J. 1948. Contribución al concocimiento del género Priapella y descripción de una nueva especie (Pisces, Poeciliidae). Revista de Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural 9: 331-340.
5. Alvarez J. 1952. Cuatro especies nuevas de peces dulceacuicolas del suroeste de Mexico. Ciencia 11: 281-289.
6. Axelrod HR, Burgess WE, Pronek N, Walls JG. 1993. Dr. Axelrod's atlas of freshwater aquarium fishes, Seventh edition revised and expanded. Neptune City: T. F. H. Publications Inc.
7. Bleeker P. 1863. Mémoire sur les poissons de la Côte de Guinée. Naturkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschap van Wetenschappen, Haarlem 2(18): 116-117.
8. Bloch ME, Schneider JOG. 1801. Systema Ichthyotogiae. Vols. 1-2. Berlin.
9. Bonaparte CL. 1831. Saggio di una distribuzione metodica degli animali vertebrati.
10. Boulenger GA. 1898. Report on the collection of fishes made by Mr. J.E.S. Moore in Lake Tanganyika during his expedition, 1895-1896. Transactions of the Zoological Society, London 15(1): 1-30.
11. Boulenger GA. 1901. Diagnoses of new fishes, discovered by Mr. W.L.S. Loat in the Nile. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(8): 446.
12. Boulenger GA. 1904. Descriptions of new West African freshwater fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14(7): 16-20.
13. Boulenger GA. 1906. Fourth contribution to the ichthyology of Lake Tanganyika, Report on the collection of fishes made by Dr. Cunningham, during the third Tanganyika expedition, 1904-1905. Transactions of the Zoological Society, London 17(6): 554.
14. Breder CM Jr, Rosen DE. 1966. Modes of reproduction in fishes. Garden City, New York: The Natural History Press.
15. Bremer K. 1988. The limits of amino acid sequence data in angiosperm phylogenetic reconstruction. Evolution 42: 795-803.
16. Chambers J. 1987. The cyprinodontiform gonopodium, with an atlas of the gonopodia of the fishes of the genus Limia. Journal of Fish Biology 30: 389-418.
17. Clark E, Aronson LR. 1951. Sexual behavior in the guppy, Lebistes reticulatus (Peters), Zoologica 36: 49-65.
18. Clausen HS. 1959. Description of two subgenera and six new species of Procatopus Boul., a little-known West African genus of cyprinodont fishes. Videnskabelige Meddeleser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening I Kobenhavn. 121: 261-291.
19. Clausen HS. 1967. Tropical Old World cyprinodonts. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
20. Costa WJEM. 1995. Pearl killifishes, the Cynolebiatinae, systematics and biogeography of the neotropical annual fish subfamily (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Neptune City, New Jersey: T. F. H. Publications, Inc.
21. Costa WJEM. 1996. Relationships, monophyly and three new species of the neotropical miniature poeciliid genus Fluviphylax (Cyprinodontiformes: Cyprinodontoidei). Ichthyological Exploration of Fresh-waters 7(2): 111-130.
22. Costa WJEM. 1998. Phylogeny and classification of the Cyprinodontiformes (Euteleostei: Atherinomorpha): A reappraisal. In: Malabarba LR, Reis RE, Vari RP, Lucena ZMS, Lucena CAS, eds. Phylogeny and classification of Neotropical fishes. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Edipuers.
23. Dawes J. 1991. Livebearing fishes: A guide to their aquarium care, biology, and classification. London: Blandford.
24. Dingerkus G, Uhler LD. 1977. Enzyme clearing of alcian blue stained whole small vertebrates for demonstration of cartilage. Stain Techniques 52: 229-232.
25. Duméril AHA. 1861. Reptiles et poissons de l'Afrique occidentale. Tome 10. Etude précedée de considérations générals sur leur distribution géographique. Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10: 258.
26. Dyer BS, Chernoff B. 1996. Phylogenetic relationships among atheriniform fishes (Teleostei: Atherinomorpha). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 117: 1-69.
27. Eigenmann CH. 1907. The poeciliid fishes of Rio Grande do Sul and the La Plata Basin. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 32: 425-433.
28. Eigenmann CH. 1909. Reports on the expedition to British Guiana of the Indiana University and the Carnegie Museum, 1908. Some new genera and species of fishes from British Guiana. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 6(1): 4-54.
29. Foster NR. 1967. Trends in the evolution of reproductive behavior in killifishes. Studies in Tropical Oceanography 5: 549-566.
30. Foster NR. 1983. The Tanganyikan lampeye, Lamprichthys tanganicus (Boulenger). Journal of the American Killifish Association 16(5): 165-171.
31. Fowler HW. 1916. Notes on fishes of the orders Haplomi and Microcyprini. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 68: 415-439.
32. Fromm D. 1982. The white eye, Oxyzygonectes dovii (Günther). Journal of the American Killifish Association 15: 201-210.
33. Garman S. 1895. The cyprinodonts. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 19: 1-170.
34. Ghedotti MJ. 1998. Phylogeny and classification of the Anablepidae (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). In: Malabarba LR, Reis RE, Vari RP, Lucena ZMS, Lucena CAS, eds. Phylogeny and classification of Neotropical fishes. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Edipuers.
35. Ghedotti MJ, Weitzman SH. 1996. A new species of Jenynsia (Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) from Brazil with comments on the composition and taxonomy of the genus. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas 179: 1-25.
36. Greenwood PH, Rosen DE, Weitzman SH, Myers GS. 1966. Studies of teleostean fishes, with a provisional classification of living forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 131: 345-354, 393-403.
37. Günther A. 1866. Catalog of the fishes of the British Museum - VI. London: Taylor & Francis.
38. Günther A. 1893. Second report on the reptiles, batrachians, and fishes, transmitted by Mr. H.H. Johnston C.B. from British Central Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London 627-628.
39. Heckel J. 1848. Eine neue Gattung von Poecilien mit rochenartigem Anklammerungs-Organe. Sitzungsber Akad Wiss Wien, Math Nat Cl 1: 289-303.
40. Henn AW. 1916. On various South American poeciliid fishes. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 10: 93-142.
41. Howell Rivero L, Hubbs CL. 1936. Studies of the fishes of the order Cyprinodontes. XV. The characters and relationships of Furcipenis huberi and Alfaro cultratus. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 339: 1-11.
42. Hubbs CL. 1924. Studies of the fishes of the order Cyprinodontes. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 13: 1-31.
43. Hubbs CL. 1926. Studies of the fishes of the order Cyprinodontes VI. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 16: 1-86.
44. Hubbs CL. 1931. Studies of the fishes of the order Cyprinodontes. IX. A new and primitive genus of Poeciliidae from Central America. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 230: 1-3.
45. Hubbs CL. 1934. Studies of the fishes of the order Cyprinodontes. XIII. Quintana atrizona, a new poeciliid. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 301: 1-8.
46. Hubbs CL. 1950. Studies of cyprinodont fishes. XX. A new subfamily from Guatemala, with ctenoid scales and a unilateral pectoral clasper. Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 78: 1-28.
47. Huber JH. 1982. (cover date 1981). A review of the cyprinodont fauna of the coastal plain in Rio Muni, Gabon, Congo, Cabinda, and Zaire, with taxonomic shifts in Aphyosemion, Epiplatys and West African Procatopodins. London: British Killifish Association.
48. Jordan DS. 1923. A classification of fishes including families and genera as far as known. Stanford University Pubublications, University Series Biological Sciences 3(2): 77-243.
49. Kamel A-H. 1947. On the shifting of the trunk features into anterior part of the original tail region during the later development of Gambusia affinis. Bull Facul Sci (Cairo) 26: 265-268.
50. Kner R. 1860. Über Belonesox beliezanus, nov. gen. et spec. aus der Familie der Cyprinodonten. Sitzungsber Akad Wiss Wein, Math Nat Cl 40(10): 419-422.
51. Lazara KJ. 1983. A taxonomic and nomenclatural overview of the subfamily Aplocheilichthyinae. Journal of the American Killifish Association 16(5): 146-158.
52. Leviton AE, Gibbs RH Jr, Heal E, Dawson CE. 1985. Standards in herpetology and ichthyology: Part I. Standard symbolic codes for institutional resource collections in herpetology and ichthyology. Copeia 1985: 802-832.
53. Meek SE. 1904. The fresh-water fishes of Mexico north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Publications of the Field Columbian Museum, Zoology Series 5: 1-252.
54. Meek SE. 1912. New species of fishes from Costa Rica. Publications of the Field Columbian Museum, Zoology Series 10(7): 69-75.
55. Meffe GK, Snelson FF Jr, eds. 1989. Ecology and Evolution of Live-bearing Fishes (Poeciliidae). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc.
56. Meinken H. 1932. Über einige neue Zahnkerpfen aus dem tropischen Westafrika. Blätter für Aquarienund Terrarienkunde 43(4): 53-54.
57. Meyer A, Lydeard C. 1993. The evolution of copulatory organs, internal fertilization, placentas, and viviparity in killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes), as inferred from a DNA phylogeny of the tyrosine kinase gene X-src. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London Series B 254: 153-162.
58. Meyer A, Morrissey JM, Schartl M. 1994. Recurrent origin of a sexually selected trait in Xiphophorus fishes inferred from molecular phylogeny. Nature 386: 539-542.
59. Meyer MK, Espinosa Peréz H. 1990. Priapella olmecae sp.n., a new species from veracruz (Mexico). Zool Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 45: 121-126.
60. Miller RR. 1979. Ecology, habits, and relationships of the Middle American cuatro ojos, Anableps dowi (Pisces: Anablepidae). Copeia 1979: 82-91.
61. Mojica CL, Meyer A, Barlow GW. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships of species of the Genus Brachyraphis (Poeciliidae) inferred from partial mitochondrial DNA sequences. Copeia 1997: 298-305.
62. Myers GS. 1924a. A new poeciliid fish of the genus Micropanchax from Ubangi. American Museum Novitates 122: 1-3.
63. Myers GS. 1924b. New genera of African poeciliid fishes. Copeia 129: 42-43.
64. Myers GS. 1928. The systematic position of the phallostethid fishes, with diagnosis of a new genus from Siam. American Museum Novitates 295: 1-12.
65. Myers GS. 1931. The primary groups of oviparous cyprinodont fishes, Order Cyprinodontes (Microcyprini). Stanford University Publications 6: 1-14.
66. Myers GS. 1938. Studies on the genera of cyprinodont fishes. XIV. Aplocheilichthys and its relatives in Africa. Copeia 1938: 136-143.
67. Myers GS. 1955. Notes on the classification and names of cyprinodont fishes, XIV. Tropical Fish Magazine 1955 (March): 7.
68. Nelson G, Rosen DE. 1981. Vicariance biogeography: a critique. New York: Columbia University Press.
69. Nelson JS. 1994. Fishes of the world, 3rd Ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
70. Nichols JT, Griscom L. 1917. Freshwater fishes of the Congo basin obtained by the American Museum Congo expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37(25): 653-756.
71. Parenti LR. 1981. A phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of cyprinodontiform fishes (Teleostei, Atherinomorpha). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 168: 335-557.
72. Parenti LR, Rauchenberger M. 1989. Systematic overview of the poeciliines. In: Meffe GK, Snelson FF Jr, eds. Ecology and Evolution of Livebearing Fishes (Poeciliidae). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc., 3-13.
73. Parker A. 1997. Combining molecular and morphological data in fish systematics: Examples from the Cyprinodontiformes. In: Kocher TD, Stepien CA, eds. Molecular systematics of fishes. New York. Academic Press, 163-188.
74. Patterson C. 1992. Supernumerary median fin-rays in teleostean fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 147-161.
75. Poey F. 1854. Los guajacones, pecesillos de agua dulca. In: Poey F. Memorias sobre Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba, Volume 1. Havana, 347-392.
76. Poll M. 1952. Notes sur les Cyprinodontidae du Musée de Congo Belge. 2e partie: les Aplocheilichthyini et les Lamprichthyini. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 45(3-4): 300-301.
77. Poll M. 1971. Un genre nouveau et une espece nouvelle de Cyprinodontidae congolaise. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 83(3-4): 303-308.
78. Regan CT. 1911. The osteology and classification of teleostean fishes of the order Microcyprini. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(7): 320-327.
79. Regan CT. 1913. A revision of the cyprinodont fishes of the subfamily Poeciliinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 977-1018.
80. Roberts TR. 1970. Description, osteology, and relationships of the Amazonian cyprinodont fish Fluviphylax pygmaeus (Myers and Carvalho). Breviora 347: 1-28.
81. Rodriguez CMl. 1997. Phylogenetic analysis of the Tribe Poeciliini (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae). Copeia 1997: 663-679.
82. Rosa RS, Costa WJEM. 1993. Systematic revision of the Genus Cnesterodon (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) with the description of two new species from Brazil. Copeia 1993: 696-708.
83. Rosa-Molinar E, Hendricks SE, Rodriguez-Sierra JF, Fritzsch B. 1994. Development of the anal fin appendicular support in the western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis affinis (Baird and Girard, 1854): A reinvestigation and reinterpretation. Acta Anatomica 151: 20-35.
84. Rosen DE. 1952. A revision of the fishes of the subfamily Alfarinae in the family Poeciliidae. Zoologica 37: 151-156.
85. Rosen DE. 1964. The relationships and taxonomic position of the halfbeaks, killifishes, silversides, and their relatives. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 127: 217-268.
86. Rosen DE. 1965. Oryzias madagascariensis Arnoult redescribed and assigned to the east African fish genus Pantanodon (Atheriniformes, Cyprinodontoidei). American Museum Novitates 2240: 1-10.
87. Rosen DE. 1967. New poeciliid fishes from Guatemala, with comments on the origins of some South and Central American forms. American Museum Novitates 2303: 1-15.
88. Rosen DE. 1979. Fishes from the uplands and intermontane basins of Guatemala: Revisionary studies and comparative geography. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 162: 269-375.
89. Rosen DE, Bailey RM. 1963. The poeciliid fishes (Cyprinodontiformes). Their structure, zoogeography and systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 126: 1-176.
90. Rosen DE, Gordon M. 1953. Functional anatomy and evolution of male genitalia in poeciliid fishes. Zoologica 38: 1-47.
91. Scheel JJ. 1970. The genus Procatopus. Tropical Fish Hobbyist 18(168): 4-15.
92. Sethi RP. 1960. Osteology and phylogeny of oviparous cyprinodont fishes (order Cyprinodontiformes). Unpublished D.Phil. Thesis, University of Florida.
93. Sorenson MD. 1996. TreeRot. Unpublished Computer Program. University of Michigan.
94. Stiassny MLJ. 1993. What are grey mullets? Bulletin of Marine Science 52(1): 197-219.
95. Swofford DL. 1993. PAUP: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony version 3.1.1. Unpublished Computer Program. Illinois Natural History Survey.
96. Tigano C, Parenti LR. 1988. Homology of the median ethmoid ossifications of Aphanius fasciatus and other atherinomorph fishes. Copeia 1988: 866-870.
97. Turner CL. 1941. Morphogenesis of the gonopodium in Gambusia affinis affinis. Journal of Morphology 69: 161-185.
98. Turner CL. 1950. The skeletal structure of the gonopodium and gonopodial suspensorium of Anableps anableps. Journal of Morphology 86: 329-366.
99. Weitzman SH. 1974. Osteology and evolutionary relationships of the Sternoptychidae with a new classification of stomiatoid families. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 153: 327-478.
100. Weitzman SH. 1982. Fluviphylax pygmaeus, a miniature killifish from tropical South American freshwaters. Journal of the American Killifish Association 15: 190-199.
101. Weitzman SH, Vari RP. 1988. Miniaturization in South American freshwater fishes: an overview and discussion. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101: 444-465.
102. White S. 1983. The genus Aplocheilichthys Bleeker: A hobbyist's introduction. Journal of the American Killifish Association 16: 176-184.
103. Whitehead PJP. 1962. The Pantanodontinae, edentulous toothcarps from east Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Zoology 9(3): 105-137.
104. Whitley GP. 1951. New fish names and records. Proceedings Royal Zoological Society, New South Wales 1949-1950: 61-68.
105. Whitley GP. 1965. Some fish genera scrutinized. Proceedings Royal Zoological Society, New South Wales 1964-1965: 25-26.
106. Wildekamp RH. 1995. A world of killies, Atlas of the oviparous cyprinodontiform fishes of the world, Volume 2. Mishawaka, Indiana: American Killifish Association.
107. Wiley EO. 1981. Phylogenetics, the theory and practice of phylogenetic systematics. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
108. Wischnath L. 1993. Atlas of livebearers of the world. Neptune City: T. F. H. Publications Inc.
109. Worthington EB. 1932. Scientific results of the Cambridge expedition to the East African lakes 1930-1931. 2. Fishes other than Cichlidae. Journal of the Linnean Society, London 38(258): 121-134.
110. Wourms JP. 1981. Viviparity: the maternal-fetal relationship in fishes. American Zoologist 21: 473-515.