Journal Article
Osteology of ‘Monopterus’ roseni with the description of Rakthamichthys, new genus, and comments on the generic assignment of the Amphipnous Group species (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes).
Britz, R., Dahanukar, N., Standing, A., Philip, S., Kumar, B. amd Raghavan, R.
Record Number:
5111
Year:
2020
Journal:
Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters
Pages:
221-236
Volume:
30
Abstract:
We provide a detailed description of the head and shoulder girdle osteology of the holotype of the synbranchid
‘Monopterus’ roseni Bailey & Gans. Collected from a well in Kerala, this subterranean synbranchid shows a number
of unique and highly derived characters in the gill arch skeleton. In ‘Monopterus’roseni, basibranchial 2 does not
articulate with basibranchial 1, but is situated more posteriorly between the proximal ends of hypobranchials 2,
with which it articulates; and ceratobranchial 2 does not articulate with hypobranchial 2, but is offset posteriorly
so that the distal tip of hypobranchial 2 is situated in between the proximal ends of ceratobranchial 1 and 2. Based
on these striking osteological differences and a combination of additional diagnostic characters, we erect the new
genus Rakthamichthys with the type species Monopterus roseni. We also include the other two southern Indian subterranean
species formerly referred to as M. indicus Eapen (= M. eapeni Talwar) and M. digressus Gopi in the new
genus Rakthamichthys along with the northeast Indian M. rongsaw Britz, Sykes, Gower & Kamei. Rakthamichthys
also differs genetically from the other Asian genera of synbranchids, Monopterus and Ophichthys, by an uncorrected
p-distance of 18.9-23.9 % in the cox1 barcoding gene. We further resurrect the genus name Typhlosynbranchus
Pellegrin for the two West African species ‘M.’ boueti and ‘M.’ luticolus.
Times Cited:
5
Relevent Species:
Rakthamichthys digressus (Gopi 2002) Britz, Dahanukar, Standing, Philip, Kumar and Raghavan 2020Rakthamichthys roseni (Bailey and Gans 1998) Britz, Dahanukar, Standing, Philip, Kumar and Raghavan 2020Rakthamichthys rongsaw (Britz, Sykes, Gower and Kamei 2018) Britz, Dahanukar, Standing, Philip, Kumar and Raghavan 2020Typhlosynbranchus luticolus (Britz, Doherty-Bone, Kouete, Sykes and Gower 2016) Britz, Dahanukar, Standing, Philip, Kumar and Raghavan 2020Typhlosynbranchus boueti Pellegrin 1922
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