Phylogenetic and phylogeographic insights into Sri Lankan killifishes (Teleostei: Aplocheilidae).

Sudasinghe, Hiranya; Ranasinghe, Tharindu; Wijesooriya, Kumudu; Rüber, Lukas; Meegaskumbura, Madhava (2024). Phylogenetic and phylogeographic insights into Sri Lankan killifishes (Teleostei: Aplocheilidae). Journal of fish biology, 105(1), pp. 340-357. Blackwell 10.1111/jfb.15792

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Three nominal species of the killifish genus Aplocheilus are reported from the lowlands of Sri Lanka. Two of these, Aplocheilus dayi and Aplocheilus werneri, are considered endemic to the island, whereas Aplocheilus parvus is reported from both Sri Lanka and Peninsular India. Here, based on a collection from 28 locations in Sri Lanka, also including a dataset of Asian Aplocheilus downloaded from GenBank, we present a phylogeny constructed from the mitochondrial cytochrome b (cytb), mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1), and nuclear recombination activating protein 1 (rag1), and investigate the interrelationships of the species of Aplocheilus in Sri Lanka. The endemic Sri Lankan aplocheilid clade comprising A. dayi and A. werneri is recovered as the sister group to the clade comprising A. parvus from Sri Lanka and Aplocheilus blockii from Peninsular India. The reciprocal monophyly of A. dayi and A. werneri is not supported in our molecular phylogeny. A. dayi and A. werneri display strong sexual dimorphism, but species-level differences are subtle, explained mostly by pigmentation patterns. Their phenotypes exhibit a parapatric distribution and may represent locally adapted forms of a single species. Alternatively, the present study does not rule out the possibility that A. dayi and A. werneri may represent an incipient species pair or that they have undergone introgression or hybridization in their contact zones. We provide evidence that the Nilwala-Gin region of southwestern Sri Lanka may have acted as a drought refugium for these fishes.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE)

UniBE Contributor:

Sudasinghe, Hiranya, Rüber, Lukas

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology

ISSN:

0022-1112

Publisher:

Blackwell

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

22 May 2024 14:35

Last Modified:

19 Jul 2024 00:14

Publisher DOI:

10.1111/jfb.15792

PubMed ID:

38769734

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Aplocheilus Cyprinodontiformes phylogeography sexual dichromatism

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/196947

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/196947

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