Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

DOI

10.5343/bms.2013.1010

Publication Title

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volume

90

Issue

1

Pages

455-470

Abstract

We identify the sister species of the world's only freshwater sardinella, Sardinella tawilis (Herre, 1927) of Taal Lake, Philippines as the morphologically-similar marine Taiwanese sardinella Sardinella hualiensis (Chu and Tsai, 1958). Evidence of incomplete lineage sorting and a species tree derived from three mitochondrial genes and one nuclear gene indicate that S. tawilis diverged from S. hualiensis in the late Pleistocene. Neutrality tests, mismatch distribution analysis, sequence diversity indices, and species tree analysis indicate populations of both species have long been stable and that the divergence between these two lineages occurred prior to the putative 18th century formation of Taal Lake.

Original Publication Citation

Willette, D., Carpenter, K., & Santos, M. (2014). Evolution of the freshwater sardinella, Sardinella tawilis (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae), in Taal Lake, Philippines and identification of its marine sister-species, Sardinella hualiensis. Bulletin of Marine Science, 90(1), 455-470. doi: 10.5343/bms.2013.1010

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