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| The terapon perches (Percoidei, Teraponidae) : a cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 159, article 5 |
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| Title: | The terapon perches (Percoidei, Teraponidae) : a cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 159, article 5 |
| Authors: | Vari, Richard P. |
| Issue Date: | 1978 |
| Publisher: | New York : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 159, article 5 |
| Abstract: | "The family Teraponidae was revised to determine: the monophyletic nature of the family; the relationships of teraponids to other perciform fishes; the relationships within the family; the recognizable species and their distinguishing characters; and the distribution patterns of the family and its subunits. Using methods of phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis put forward by Hennig and Croizat, respectively, I obtained the following results: (1) The Teraponidae can be defined on the basis of derived states of the swimbaldder, extrinsic swimbladder muscle, urohyal, and third pharyngobranchial. These characters fail to support the inclusion of the genera Datnioides and Pseudohelotes in the Teraponidae as suggested by Fowler. Neither these characters nor any others were found to support a hypothesis of a sister-group relationship between teraponids and any other group in the Percoidei. (2) Within the family 15 monophyletic assemblages were recognized, with the relationships between the... |
| Description: | p. 177-340 : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Thesis (Ph. D.)--City University of New York. Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-340). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1273 |
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