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[[ Genus
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The gobioid fish genus
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(Teleostei: Gobioidei) was erected by Regan (1912) for the type species
<taxonomicName id="5667061CF3838511701A183BA5769C7A" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:33D88443-124A-42CF-8F3A-814B202F4258" family="Microdesmidae" genus="Parioglossus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Parioglossus taeniatus Regan 1912:302" order="Perciformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="taeniatus">P. taeniatus</taxonomicName>
, and now has 17 recognized described species. Most of these species inhabit warm temperate to tropical regions of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans; they are normally found around the roots of mangroves, or around algae in estuaries and coastal coral reefs. The general gestalt of members of the genus is exemplified by
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(Fig. 1). Only a few of the species appear to be geographically widespread (Rennis and Hoese, 1985), and one species seems to be confined to fresh water (
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, Dingerkus and
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, 1992).
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1.
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, 21.5 mm SL, Viti Levu, Fiji, ROM 42981. Photo: R. Winterbottom.
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Tomiyama (1958, 1959) reviewed the genus and recognized four valid species (
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Regan 1912,
<taxonomicName id="3DD8B36A3B377AA938E45B98F7627326" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:2ABDCEF9-B514-48AD-AE28-D9E85C1122D5" family="Microdesmidae" genus="Parioglossus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Parioglossus rainfordi McCulloch 1921:471" order="Perciformes" pageNumber="2" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rainfordi">P. rainfordi</taxonomicName>
, McCulloch, 1921,
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Koumans, 1953 and
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Tomiyama, 1958). Rennis and Hoese (1985) revisited the genus, recognized 14 valid species (including six new species, and one undescribed as “P. sp”) and provided a key to the species. Since then, four additional new species have been described.
<taxonomicName id="3EE780D8057F0635B8829E53010F6696" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1A647AA8-4F04-466B-9C55-CAC9642E99A5" family="Microdesmidae" genus="Parioglossus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Parioglossus neocaledonicus Dingerkus &amp; Séret 1992:134" order="Perciformes" pageNumber="2" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="neocaledonicus">Parioglossus neocaledonicus</taxonomicName>
was described by Dingerkus and
<normalizedToken id="1E30257D7DEC36E422DBEEDC29054977" originalValue="Séret">Seret</normalizedToken>
, 1992;
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by Zhong, 1994, and the “P. sp” of Rennis and Hoese was described as
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by Suzuki and Senou (1994) who, somewhat confusingly, included another but different “P. sp” in that paper, characterized by the possession of three (instead of four) pelvic fin rays. This latter species is not included in our analysis. Finally, Williams and Lecchini (2004) described
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from Rapa.
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belongs to the family Ptereleotridae Bleeker, 1876. Although there has been some controversy as to whether to recognize this higher taxon as a family or a subfamily (see, e.g. Thacker, 2000), that issue is essentially irrelevant to this study. Miller (1971) suggested that
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shows affinity with
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Gill 1863,
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Bleeker 1856,
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Bean in Jordan and Gilbert 1882, and
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Fowler 1938, with the closest relative being
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.
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was later relegated to the synonymy of
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by Randall and Hoese (1985). Rennis and Hoese (1987), in their description of the new pterleotrine genus
<taxonomicName id="A7AFDAC355D24C1938DA246BFA162D1B" LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:5B1D61B4-7FCB-4F7D-904F-E0767F64C201" family="Microdesmidae" genus="Aioliops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Aioliops Rennis &amp; Hoese 1987:70" order="Perciformes" pageNumber="2" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Aioliops</taxonomicName>
, provided a phylogenetic hypothesis for the genera they included in this subfamily. They concluded that their new genus formed an unresolved basal trichotomy with
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on one hand, and a monophyletic grouping of
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,
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and
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on the other. Within this latter assemblage, their osteological evidence supported the last two genera (each demonstrated to be monophyletic) as the sister group of
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. That scheme of relationships is accepted here, and
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(1 species) and
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(2 species) were selected as sequential outgroups for this study. From these potential candidates, three species were used:
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,
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and
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.
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date, no hypothesis of the phylogeny for the species of
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has been proposed. The members of the genus are very similar in meristic and morphometric values. Some of the features, such as the number of head pores, differ dramatically between individuals within certain species. One of the most important key characters used to distinguish between the species is body coloration. It has been suggested that osteological characters of gobioid fishes may be useful in classification (Regan, 1911), as these characters tend to be more stable than external morphology and coloration. The main thrust of this paper is the comparison of both the external morphology and the osteology of the species of
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to derive a hypothesis of their interrelationships.
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