The South American annual killifish genus Austrolebias (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): phylogenetic relationships, descriptive morphology and taxonomic revision.
Author
Wilson J. E. M. Costa
text
Zootaxa
2006
1213
1
162
http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3415A121-707B-4676-9259-4FD5CE1C3323
journal article
z01213p001
[[ Genus
Austrolebias Costa
]]
Phylogenetic analysis
The present phylogenetic analysis comprises 83 morphological characters, listed in Appendix 1 and included in the data matrix of Appendix 2. Two most parsimonious trees were found (length = 217, CI = 0.53, RI = 0.80), each differing only in the position of
A. luteoflammulatus
(as sister group to clades 1 + 2, or as sister group of the clade comprising all other species of
Austrolebias
except
A. gymnoventris
, and
A. jaegari
). The strict consensus tree (length = 218, CI = 0.53, RI = 0.80), which is illustrated in Fig. 1, is the basis for the present taxonomic revision.