Molecular phylogeny, analysis of character evolution, and submersible collections enable a new classification of a diverse group of gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Nes subgroup), including nine new species and four new genera

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 177, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 764-812

  Tornabene, Luke ^a,b   Van Tassell, James L ^c   Gilmore, Richard G ^d   Robertson, David Ross ^e   Young, Forrest ^f   Baldwin, Carole C ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d Estuarine Coastal and Ocean Science Inc   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^f Dynasty Marine Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

ancestral state reconstruction; Caribbean; coral reef fish; deep reefs; gobies; Gobiidae; systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966694997     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12394     Document Type: Article

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