The Lusitania Province as a center of diversification: The phylogeny of the genus Microlipophrys (Pisces: Blenniidae)

Levy, André; Wirtz, Peter; Floeter, Sergio R.; Almada, Vítor Carvalho

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.12.008

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“…Even though such provinces are distinguished by the prerequisite endemic species (at least 10%), the families, most genera, and the majority of species are apparently derived from the adjacent tropical provinces. The Lusitania Province that borders the TEA demonstrates unusual evolutionary activity by the presence of endemic genera in several fish families (Hanel et al ., ; Levy et al ., ). In the case of the warm‐temperate Carolina Province that borders the CA, most of the fauna is obviously derived from the Caribbean.…”

Section: Atlantic Oceanmentioning

confidence: 97%

Marine shelf habitat: biogeography and evolution

Briggs

Bowen

2013

Journal of Biogeography

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We synthesize the evolutionary implications of recent advances in the fields of phylogeography, biogeography and palaeogeography for shallow-water marine species, focusing on marine speciation and the relationships among the biogeographic regions and provinces of the world. A recent revision of biogeographic provinces has resulted in the recognition of several new provinces and a re-evaluation of provincial relationships. These changes, and the information that led to them, make possible a clarification of distributional dynamics and evolutionary consequences. Most of the new conclusions pertain to biodiversity hotspots in the tropical Atlantic, tropical Indo-West Pacific, cold-temperate North Pacific, and the cold Southern Ocean. The emphasis is on the fish fauna, although comparative information on invertebrates is utilized when possible. Although marine biogeographic provinces are characterized by endemism and thus demonstrate evolutionary innovation, dominant species appear to arise within smaller centres of high species diversity and maximum interspecies competition. Species continually disperse from such centres of origin and are readily accommodated in less diverse areas. Thus, the diversity centres increase or maintain species diversity within their areas of influence, and are part of a global system responsible for the maintenance of biodiversity over much of the marine world.

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Section: Atlantic Oceanmentioning

confidence: 97%

Marine shelf habitat: biogeography and evolution

Briggs

Bowen

2013

Journal of Biogeography

159

113

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“…These oceanographic conditions mean that as latitude decreases along the African coast SSTs increase at a slower rate than offshore, strengthening the barrier separating tropical and warm temperate species. This likely explains why there are several sister taxa with species in the Mediterranean Sea and tropical Africa, being absent between these regions (e.g., Domingues et al 2006, Levy et al 2011.…”

Section: Historical and Oceanographic Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Complex origins of the Lusitania biogeographic province and northeastern Atlantic fishes

Toledo¹,

Brito²,

Levy³

et al. 2013

Frontiers of Biogeography

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The Lusitania Province encompasses the warm temperate marine waters between the southern end of the English Channel, in the North, and Cape Juby or Cape Blanco, in the South, including the Mediterranean and the archipelagoes of the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands. Briggs and Bowen (2012) proposed that the warm temperate provinces, although retaining their provincial status, should be grouped with the adjacent tropical ones. Thus, they included the Lusitania Province in a warm eastern Atlantic region. We argue that the time elapsed since the Miocene was sufficient to allow the evolution of endemic species, genera and some higher rank taxa, a finding that emphasizes the convenience to avoid the integration of the province in this larger region. The tropicality index for the Lusitania Province is 1.82, indicating a prevalence of warm water over cold water fish. However, this value is strongly biased by the large differences between the Macaronesian archipelagos (4.08) and the mainland coasts of the Lusitania Province (0.66).

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“…The Algarve coast (southern Portugal, north-eastern Atlantic) presents a rich fauna with biogeographic affinities with the Mediterranean Sea, the Lusitanian, the west African Transition, Northern European Seas and Western Atlantic provinces (sensu Spalding et al 2007;Souto et al 2010;Levy et al 2011), because of the proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar (Baus et al 2005; and references therein) and the confluence of oceanic currents (Cherubin et al 2000;Pérez et al 2001;Coelho et al 2002;Martins et al 2002). However, the gorgonian populations of southern Portugal are poorly described, especially compared to the Mediterranean, where in the past few years, several studies have been performed in shallow sub-littoral waters, gathering a large amount of biological and ecological information, and building predictive models to be used in conservation plans (Linares et al 2007(Linares et al , 2008bBramanti et al 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial and depth-associated distribution patterns of shallow gorgonians in the Algarve coast (Portugal, NE Atlantic)

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The ecological role of gorgonians for marine rocky bottoms is worldwide recognized, but the information on the distribution patterns of NE Atlantic temperate species is insufficient, considering current global, regional and local threats. To overcome the lack of information on the spatial distribution patterns of gorgonians in south Portugal, in 2009/2010, the occurrence and abundance of gorgonian species in rocky bottoms were quantified over more than 25 km of coast (37.1°N/8.6°W) down to 30 m depth. Eunicella labiata, Eunicella gazella, Eunicella verrucosa and Leptogorgia sarmentosa were abundant and frequent in the studied area, while Leptogorgia lusitanica was less abundant. All species evidenced a similar depth pattern, that is abundance significantly increased with depth below 15 m. At shallower waters (up to 15 m), the distribution of gorgonians may be constrained by abiotic factors and competition with algae. Indeed, the abundance of gorgonians was negatively correlated with the percentage cover of algae along the depth gradient, but gorgonians and sponges coexist. Competition among gorgonian species also seems to be low in this area because of the similarity in the abundance pattern observed for the most abundant species and also their high association. In NE Atlantic shallow temperate rocky bottoms, the distribution of gorgonians seems to be influenced by environmental factors and biological interactions, namely competition (algae) and coexistence (sponges and other gorgonians).

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The Lusitania Province as a center of diversification: The phylogeny of the genus Microlipophrys (Pisces: Blenniidae)

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

Marine shelf habitat: biogeography and evolution

Marine shelf habitat: biogeography and evolution

Complex origins of the Lusitania biogeographic province and northeastern Atlantic fishes

Spatial and depth-associated distribution patterns of shallow gorgonians in the Algarve coast (Portugal, NE Atlantic)

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