A pelagic larval stage is found in nearly all demersal marine teleost fishes, and it is during
this pelagic stage that the geographic scale of dispersal is determined. Marine biologists …

Background Fish classifications, as those of most other taxonomic groups, are being
transformed drastically as new molecular phylogenies provide support for natural groups …

The family-group names of animals (superfamily, family, subfamily, supertribe, tribe and
subtribe) are regulated by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Family names …

One hundred and eighteen major groups of teleost fishes are recognized as monophyletic
on the basis of morphological synapomorphies. One hundred and twelve are formally …

Over the past 520 million years, the process of evolution has produced a diversity of nearly
25000 species of fish. This diversity includes thousands of different fin designs which are …

The limits and relationships of serranid and percid fishes, in the context of the percomorph
radiation, were resolved using 4036 aligned base pairs of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA …

The mitochondrial DNA control region is one of the most frequently utilized sequences for
both intra-and interspecific genetic studies of fishes, yet a tenable divergence rate …

Background Flatfish cranial asymmetry represents one of the most remarkable
morphological innovations among vertebrates, and has fueled vigorous debate on the …

Sixty species of jawfishes (Opistognathus) from the Indo-West Pacific are reported in an
updated review, including descriptions of 18 new species: Opistognathus albomaculatus n …

Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data for 105 acanthomorph taxa are analyzed to
address questions of scorpaeniform monophyly and relationships. The combination of 3425 …