Molecular phylogenetics of Gobioidei and phylogenetic placement of European gobies

Complete mitochondrial genomes of three Neotropical sleeper gobies: Eleotris amblyopsis, E. picta and Hemieleotris latifasciata (Gobiiformes: Eleotridae)

“…We aligned our mitogenomes with representatives from five of the seven families of Gobiiformes (sensu Agorreta et al 2013), and extracted all 13 protein-coding genes for subsequent phylogenetic analysis. We partitioned the data by gene and by codon, and estimated the best arrangement of partitions under a GTR þ G nucleotide substitution model using PartitionFinder (Lanfear et al 2012).…”

Cryptic lineage divergence in marine environments: genetic differentiation at multiple spatial and temporal scales in the widespread intertidal goby Gobiosoma bosc

“…A well-known example of the role of ecology in driving speciation in marine fishes is the radiation of the seven-spined gobies (Gobiosomatini Birdsong, 1975), a New World tribe displaying great diversity in ecology, behavior, and color in its 26 genera and more than 130 species (Rüber, Van Tassell, & Zardoya, 2003;Van Tassell, 2012), and itself part of one of the most species-rich teleost families (Gobiidae) with almost 2,000 species described to date (Agorreta et al, 2013;Thacker & Roje, 2011). The seven-spined gobies are distributed in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific throughout the coasts of America and achieve their highest species diversity in the Caribbean Sea (Van Tassell, 2012).…”

Revision of so-called Pomatoschistus (Gobiiformes, Teleostei) from the late Eocene and early Oligocene

“…Their systematics at the family level was initially based on characteristic suites of morphological characters and has, more recently, been largely confirmed by studies using molecular data (e.g., Miller, 1973;Hoese and Gill, 1993;Johnson and Brothers, 1993;Thacker, 2009;Thacker and Roje, 2009;Agorreta et al, 2013;Thacker et al, 2015). A simplified phylogeny is given in Figure 1.…”

“…Pomatoschistus is a member of the 'sandgoby' group among the Oxudercidae (Agorreta et al, 2013). The 'sand-gobies' have been defined as a distinct clade based on morphological characters by McKay and Miller (1997).…”

“…The group comprises the genus Pomatoschistus, together with Gobiusculus, Knipowitschia, Economidichthys and Hyrcanogobius (see McKay and Miller, 1997;Agorreta et al, 2013). The 'sand gobies' show a distinctive feature in the jaws: the absence of a postmaxillary process on the premaxilla, except in some females of Gobiusculus flavescens (McKay and Miller, 1997).…”