Interrelationships of Aulopiformes

Leis' conundrum: Homology of the clavus of the ocean sunfishes. 1. Ontogeny of the median fins and axial skeleton of Monotrete leiurus (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontidae)

“…AMS 18314002) and syngnathid (Bridge, 1896;Rauther, 1925) gasterosteiforms. Fusion of several, but not all proximalmiddle radials was reported in the posteriormost dorsal pterygiophores of osmerids and salangids (Johnson and Patterson, 1996), in a few posterior dorsal or anal pterygiophores of early stages of three aulopiforms (Baldwin and Johnson, 1996), and in Metavelifer (Baldwin and Johnson, 1996).…”

Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes)

“…1), we demonstrate that the suborder Enchodontoidei is not a monophyletic group, as two genera of the outgroup belonging to another suborder and even to another order (Trachinocephalus and Protostomias, respectively) went to the ingroup. Although Trachinocephalus belongs to the same order of the taxa herein studied (Aulopiformes), it is allocated into the suborder Synodontoidei, together with other extant members of Aulopiformes (Baldwin andJohnson 1996, Sato andNakabo 2002). Arambourg (1954) and Taverne (1991) included Protostomias in the order Stomiifomes, based on generalized anatomical features, such as general shape of the body and a massive and tooth-bearing dentary, as well as the position of the median fins.…”

“…(missing data). All characters previously proposed in the literature have been reviewed: the character 54 was adapted from Goody (1969); the characters 1, 2, 21, 23, 26, 41, 63, 70, 71, 83, and 84 were from Chalifa (1989a); the characters 3, 10, 11, 16, 19, 24, 25, 29, 30, 33, 38, 42, 64, 65, 77, and 86 were from Taverne (1991); the characters 75, 76, and 81 were from Baldwin and Johnson (1996); the characters 5, 6, 7, 17, 31, 48, 49, 50, 52, 57, 62, 66, and 79 were from Fielitz (2004); the characters 4, 12, 14, 15, 18, 34, 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 56, 59, 60, 61, 67, 78, 85, and 87 were from Gallo et al (2005). The new characters are 8, 9, 13, 20, 22, 27, 28, 32, 35, 36, 37, 53, 55, 58, 68, 69, 72, 73, 74, 80, and 82.…”

Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of Aulopus japonicus (Teleostei: Aulopiformes), a basal Eurypterygii: longer DNA sequences and higher-level relationships

“…The order Aulopiformes currently comprises 4 suborders, 12 families, 43 genera (Rosen, 1973;Baldwin and A lthough molecular phylogenetic studies have been expected to prove decisive in resolving persistent controversies over higher-level relationships of teleosts (Nelson, 1984;Nelson, 1989), they have not yet fulfilled their promise (Stepien and Kocher, 1997). Indeed, with the exception of the sister relationship of Clupeomorpha ϩ Ostariophysi (Lê et al, 1993), no novel molecular phylogenetic hypotheses have been considered significant in recent studies (Lecointre and Nelson, 1996;Johnson and Patterson, 1996).…”