2020
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.3.6
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Limia mandibularis, a new livebearing fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from Lake Miragoane, Haiti

Abstract: Limia mandibularis, a new livebearing fish of the family Poeciliidae is described from Lake Miragoane in southwestern Haiti on Hispaniola. The new species differs from all other species in the genus Limia by the presence of a well-developed lower jaw, the absence of preorbital and preopercular pores, and preorbital and preopercular canals forming an open groove each. The description of this new Limia species from Lake Miragoane confirms this lake as an important center of endemism for the genus with a total of… Show more

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“…Powerful phylogenetic comparative analyses typically demand trait and phylogenetic data for over 50 species (Molina-Venegas & Rodriguez, 2017). The genus Limia only has 22 described species (Rodriguez-Silva et al, 2020), which simply cannot satisfy the sampling requirements for robust macroevolutionary inferences.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Powerful phylogenetic comparative analyses typically demand trait and phylogenetic data for over 50 species (Molina-Venegas & Rodriguez, 2017). The genus Limia only has 22 described species (Rodriguez-Silva et al, 2020), which simply cannot satisfy the sampling requirements for robust macroevolutionary inferences.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our samples from Lake Miragoâne include three of the species originally described by Rivas (2) that had not previously been used in a phylogenetic analysis. We also included two recently described species from the Lake, Limia islai and Limia mandibularis (43,45,47). These five species from Lake Miragoâne are recovered as part of a well-supported clade in all phylogenetic analyses; however, with the exception of L. mandibularis, analyses failed to recover samples of L. islai, L. immacualata, L. miragoanensis, and L. nigrofasciata as reciprocally monophyletic clades consistent with recognized species boundaries.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This species has evolved to utilize particular food resources welldeveloped and anteriorly projected lower jaw, which deviates from other poeciliids. Limia mandibularis' modified jaw may offer some advantages or specializations in relation to diet (47).…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted December 27, 2020. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.26.424431 doi: bioRxiv preprint 5 in freshwater ecosystems in the Caribbean with at least 19 endemic species on Hispaniola and one endemic species each occurring in Cuba, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman (Burgess and Franz, 1989;Rodriguez, 1997;Hamilton, 2001;Rodriguez-Silva et al, 2020). These freshwater fishes occur in a wide distribution range occupying diverse aquatic habitats on these islands .…”
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confidence: 99%