TY - JOUR
T1 - Intraspecific morphological variation in shads, Dorosoma anale and D. petenense (Actinopterygii: Clupeiformes: Clupeidae), in the Mexican Grijalva and Usumacinta river basins
AU - Macossay-Cortez, Alberto
AU - Rodiles-Hernández, Rocío
AU - González-Díaz, Alfonso A.
AU - Ornelas-García, C. Patricia
AU - González-Acosta, Adrián F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Alberto Macossay-Cortez et al.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Historical hydrological changes and the environmental characteristics of northern Middle America have promoted diversification and determined the distribution of fishes in the Grijalva and Usumacinta river basins of Mexico. In several taxa with wide distributions, cryptic diversity has been identified through molecular and morphological analyses. This study evaluated the intraspecific morphological variation of Dorosoma anale Meek, 1904 and Dorosoma petenense (Günther, 1867) along the Grijalva and Usumacinta river basins through geometric morphometric and linear biometric analyses. Little intraspecific differentiation was detected for either species. However, differences were identified between populations in the Grijalva basin and those from the upper Usumacinta River basins with respect to body height, head size, pelvic fin position, and anal fin size. The phenotypic expression of these attributes appears to be closely related to habitat type and geographic isolation. The morphological differences within D. petenense support the molecular hypothesis of two lineages existing in the Usumacinta River basin.
AB - Historical hydrological changes and the environmental characteristics of northern Middle America have promoted diversification and determined the distribution of fishes in the Grijalva and Usumacinta river basins of Mexico. In several taxa with wide distributions, cryptic diversity has been identified through molecular and morphological analyses. This study evaluated the intraspecific morphological variation of Dorosoma anale Meek, 1904 and Dorosoma petenense (Günther, 1867) along the Grijalva and Usumacinta river basins through geometric morphometric and linear biometric analyses. Little intraspecific differentiation was detected for either species. However, differences were identified between populations in the Grijalva basin and those from the upper Usumacinta River basins with respect to body height, head size, pelvic fin position, and anal fin size. The phenotypic expression of these attributes appears to be closely related to habitat type and geographic isolation. The morphological differences within D. petenense support the molecular hypothesis of two lineages existing in the Usumacinta River basin.
KW - Middle-American fish
KW - body shape variation
KW - geometric morphometrics
KW - phenotypic differentiation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134010807&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3897/aiep.52.84694
DO - 10.3897/aiep.52.84694
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85134010807
SN - 0137-1592
VL - 52
SP - 149
EP - 158
JO - Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
JF - Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria
IS - 2
ER -