New light on the paleobiogeography of the labyrinth fishes

Authors

  • Feixiang Wu Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
  • Dekui He The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
  • Mee-mann Chang Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
  • Desui Miao Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, U.S.A.

Keywords:

†Eoanabas, paleobiogeography, labyrinth fishes

Abstract

The labyrinth fishes (Anabantoidei/Anabantiformes) have an African-Asian disjunctive distribution; however, their biogeographical history remains elusive due to the scarcity of their fossil records, especially for the Anabantidae itself, the only anabantoid family with a disjunctive biogeography. A time-calibrated anabantoid phylogeny incorporating both fossil and extant taxa and a likelihood dispersal extinction and cladogenesis (EDC) model in the software package of LAGRANGE were used to infer the ancestral areas of main lineages of the anabantoid fishes. The results suggest that" before "the split of the Asian and African anabantids is a recent event The split of the Asian-African anabantid is a recent event. The traditional drift vicariance hypothesis and the late Cretaceous or early Tertiary dispersal hypotheses are now called into question for the interpretation of the anabantid biogeographical pattern.

References

Drummond, A. J. and Rambaut, A. 2007. BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees. BMC Evolutionary Biololgy 7, 214.

Liem, K. 1963. The comparative osteology and phylogeny of the Anabantoidei (Teleostei, Pisces). Illinois Biological Monographs, 30, 1-149.

Murray, A. M., Zaim, Y., Rizal, Y., Aswan, Y., Gunnell, G. F. and Ciochon, R. L.2015. A fossil gourami (Teleostei, Anabantoidei) from probable Eocene deposits of the Ombilin Basin, Sumatra, Indonesia, Journal of Vertebrate. Paleontology 35 (2), e906444.

Ree, R. H. and Smith, S. A. 2008. Maximum likelihood inference of geographic range evolution by dispersal, local extinction, and cladogenesis. Systmatic Biology 57, 4-14.

Rögl, F. 1999. Mediterranean and Paratethys. Facts and hypotheses of an Oligocene to Miocene paleogeography (short overview). Geologica Carpathic 50, 339-349.

Rüber, L., Britz, R. and Zardoya, R. 2006. Molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary diversification of labyrinth fishes (Perciformes: Anabantoidei). Systmatic Biology 55, 374-397.

Skelton, P. 1980. Systematics and biogeography of the redfin Barbus species (Pisces, Cyprinidae) from southern Africa. Ph.D. dissertation, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Storey, B. C. 1995. The role of mantle plumes in the continental breakups: Case histories from Gondwanaland. Nature 377, 301-308.

Wu, F. Miao, D., Chang. M. M., Shi G. and Wang, N. 2017. Fossil climbing perch and associated plant megafossils indicate a warm and wet central Tibet during the late Oligocene. Scientific Reports 7, 878.

Downloads

Published

31-12-2017

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2017): JULY - DECEMBER

Section

Articles

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.