Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-c4f8m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T01:41:03.379Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Comparative osteology of the family Tripterygiidae (Teleostei: Blenniiformes)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Laith A. Jawad ,
Ronald Fricke  and
Joacim Näslund
Laith A. Jawad*
Affiliation:
Flat Bush, Manukau, Auckland 2016, New Zealand
Ronald Fricke
Affiliation:
Im Ramstal 76, 97922 Lauda-Königshofen, Germany
Joacim Näslund
Affiliation:
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: L. A. Jawad, Flat Bush, Manukau, Auckland 2016, New Zealand. email: laith_jawad@hotmail.com
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a comparative study of five osteological complexes, the infraorbital bones, branchial arches, urohyal bone, interdigitation of the median fins, and the caudal fin skeleton, of some members of the fish family Tripterygiidae. Osteological characters that may prove valuable for taxonomic purposes are described, and on the basis of the material handled, their use to separate species within the family is discussed. Several formulae were developed for the distribution of the osteological complexes of the dorsal fin, dorsal and ventral caudal procurrent ray distribution, and caudal fin in the different tripterygiid species studied.

Keywords

Branchial archescaudal fin skeletoncomparative osteologyinfraorbital bonesurohyal boneTripterygiidae
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 98 , Issue 6 , September 2018 , pp. 1487 - 1511
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2017 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Bellwood, D.R. (1994) A phylogenetic study of the parrotfishes, family Scaridae (Pisces: Labroidei), with a revision of genera. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 20, 1–86.Google Scholar
Birdsong, R.S. (1975) The osteology of Microgobius signatus Poey (Pisces: Gobiidae), with comments on other gobiid fishes. Bulletin of Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 19, 135–187.Google Scholar
Birdsong, R.S., Murdy, E.O. and Pezold, F.L. (1988) A study of the vertebral column and median fin osteology in gobiid fishes with comments on gobioid relationships. Bulletin of Marine Science 42, 174–214.Google Scholar
Bloch, M.E. and Schneider, J.G. (1801) Systema ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Berlin: Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini, Sumtibus Austoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.Google Scholar
Castillo, R.M. and Pequeño, G. (1998) Sinopsis de Tripterygiidae de Chile (Osteichthes: Perciformes). Gayana, Zoologia 62, 109–133.Google Scholar
Choat, J.H. and Randall, J.E. (1986) A review of the parrotfishes (family Scaridae) of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia with description of a new species. Records of the Australian Museum 38, 175–228.Google Scholar
Clark, E. (1980) Red Sea fishes of the family Tripterygiidae with descriptions of eight new species. Israel Journal of Zoology 28, 65–113.Google Scholar
Clarke, F.E. (1879) On some new fishes. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 11, 201–295.Google Scholar
Cuvier, G. and Valenciennes, A. (1836) Histoire naturelle des poisons. Tome onzième. Livre treizième. De la famille des Mugiloïdes. Livre quatorzième. De la famille des Gobioïdes. Paris: F. G. Levrault.Google Scholar
Dingerkus, G. and Uhler, L.D. (1977) Enzyme clearing of alcian blue stained whole small vertebrates for demonstration of cartilage. Stain Technology 52, 229–232.Google Scholar
Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. and van der Laan, R. (eds) (2017) Catalog of fishes electronic version (1 March 2017). Internet publication, San Francisco (California Academy of Sciences). Available at http://research.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/Catalog/fishcatmain.asp.Google Scholar
Fricke, R. (ed.) (2016) References. In Catalog of fishes (30 August 2016). Internet publication, San Francisco (California Academy of Sciences). Available at http://research.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/Catalog/fishcatmain.asp.Google Scholar
Fricke, R. (1983a) A method for counting caudal fin rays of actinopterygian fishes. Braunschweiger Naturkundliche Schriften 1, 729–733.Google Scholar
Fricke, R. (1983b) Revision of the Indo-Pacific genera and species of the dragonet family Callionymidae (Teleostei). Braunschweig: J. Cramer, x + 774 pp.Google Scholar
Fricke, R. (1994) Tripterygiid fishes of Australia, New Zealand and the Southwest Pacific Ocean, with descriptions of 2 new genera and 16 new species (Teleostei). Konigstein: Koeltz Scientific Books, ix + 585 pp.Google Scholar
Fricke, R. (1997) Tripterygiid fishes of the western and central Pacific, with descriptions of 15 new species, including an annotated checklist of world Tripterygiidae (Teleostei). Königstein: Koeltz Scientific Books, ix + 607 pp.Google Scholar
Fricke, R. (2009) Systematics of the Tripterygiidae (Triplefins). In Patzner, R.A., Hastings, P.A., Gonçalves, E.J. and Kapoor, B.G. (eds) The biology of blennies. Enfield, NH: Science Publishers, pp. 31–67.Google Scholar
Fricke, R. and Eschmeyer, W.N. (2016) Guide to fish collections. In Catalog of fishes (30 August 2016). Internet publication, San Francisco (California Academy of Sciences). Available at http://research.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/Catalog/collections.asp.Google Scholar
Fricke, R. and Roberts, C.D. (1993) Grahamina, a new genus for robust bodied triplefins (Teleostei: Tripterygiidae) from New Zealand and Australia, with description of a new species. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Ser. A 504, 1–21.Google Scholar
Ginsburg, I. (1945) Contribution to a methodology in the caudal fin count of fishes and its use in classification. Copeia 1945, 133–142.Google Scholar
Gosline, W.A. (1968) The suborders of perciform fishes. Proceedings of United States National Museum 124, 1–78.Google Scholar
Hansen, P.E.H. (1986) Revision of the tripterygiid fish genus Helcogramma, including descriptions of four new species. Bulletin of Marine Science 38, 313–354.Google Scholar
Hardy, G.S. (1984) A new genus and species of triplefin (Pisces: family Tripterygiidae) from New Zealand. National Museum of New Zealand Records 2, 175–180.Google Scholar
Hardy, G.S. (1986) Redescription of Gilloblennius Whitley and Phillipps, 1939 (Pisces: Tripterygiidae), and description of a new genus and two new species from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 16, 145–168. pls. 1–2.Google Scholar
Hardy, G.S. (1987a) Descriptions of a new genus and two new species of tripterygiid fishes from New Zealand. National Museum of New Zealand Records 3, 47–58.Google Scholar
Hardy, G.S. (1987b) Revision of some triplefins (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) from New Zealand and Australia, with descriptions of two new genera and two new species. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 17, 253–274.Google Scholar
Hardy, G.S. (1987c) A new genus for Trypterigium dorsalis Clarke, 1879, an unusual triplefin (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 17, 157–164.Google Scholar
Hardy, G.S. (1987d) Revision of the Notoclinops Whitley, 1930 (Pisces: Tripterygiidae), and description of a new species from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 17, 165–176.Google Scholar
Hardy, G.S. (1989a) The genus Forsterygion Whitley and Phillipps, 1939 (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) in New Zealand and Australia, with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Natural History 23, 491–512.Google Scholar
Hardy, G.S. (1989b) The “blue-dot” triplefin: a new species of Notoclinops Whitley, 1930 (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 19, 327–332.Google Scholar
Holleman, W. (1979) The taxonomy and osteology of fishes of the family Tripterygiidae (Perciformes: Blennioidei) of South Africa. M.Sc. Dissertation. Rhodes University.Google Scholar
Holleman, W. (1982) Three new species and a new genus of tripterygiid fishes (Blennioidei) from the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Annals of Cape Provicial Museums (Natural History) 14, 109–137.Google Scholar
Holleman, W. (1991) A revision of the tripterygiid fish genus Norfolkia Fowler 1953 (Perciformes: Blennioidei). Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums 18, 227–243.Google Scholar
Holleman, W. (1993) Ucla xenogrammus, a new genus and species of Indo-Pacific fishes (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae). The J.L.B.Smith Institute of Ichthyology Special Publication 55, 1–10.Google Scholar
Holleman, W. and Buxton, C.D. (1993) Acanthanectes, a new genus of triplefin with two new species from the southern coast of South Africa (Blennioidei: Tripterygiidae). Cybium 17, 327–342.Google Scholar
Jawad, L.A. (2008) Second revision of the New Zealand triplefin genus Forsterygion Whitley and Phillips [sic], 1939 (Pisces: Tripterygiidae). Journal of Natural History 42, 2943–2989.Google Scholar
Jawad, L.A. and Clements, K.D. (2004) Matanui, a new genus of deepwater triplefin fishes (Pisces: Tripterygiidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34, 81–103.Google Scholar
Jenyns, L. (1841) Fish. In Darwin, C. (ed.) The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle during the years 1832–1836, Volume 3, Part 16. London: Smith Elder and Co., pp. 65–96.Google Scholar
Kner, R. (1861) Über den Flossenbau der Fische. I. Allgemeiner Theil. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien, Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 42, 807–814.Google Scholar
McDowall, R.M. (2001) The principal caudal fin ray count – a fundamental character in the galaxioid fishes. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28, 395–405.Google Scholar
Nelson, J.S., Grande, T.C. and Wilson, M.V.H. (2016) Fishes of the world, Fifth edition. New York, NY: John Wiley, xli + 707 pp.Google Scholar
Nybelin, O. (1963) Zur morphologie und terminologie des Schwanzskelettes der Actinopterygier. Arkiv för Zoologi 15, 485–516.Google Scholar
Oliveira, R.F., Almada, V.C., Almeida, A.J., Santos, R.S. and Gonçalves, E.J. (1992) A check-list of the blennioid fishes (Teleostei, Blennioidei) occurring in Portuguese waters. Arquipélago 10, 23–37.Google Scholar
Rosen, D.E. (1973) Interrelationships of higher euteleostean fishes. In Greenwood, P.H. et al. (eds) Interrelationships of fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society B 53(Suppl. 1), 397–513.Google Scholar
Rosen, D.E. and Patterson, C. (1969) The structure and relationships of the paracanthopterygian fishes. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 141, 357–464.Google Scholar
Rosenblatt, R.H. (1959) A revisionary study of the Blennioid fish family: Tripterygiidae. PhD Dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, 361 pp.Google Scholar
Rosenblatt, R.H. (1960) The Atlantic species of the blennioid fish family Enneanectes. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 112, 1–23.Google Scholar
Ruck, J. (1976) Studies on the development and osteology of some New Zealand inshore fishes. PhD Dissertation. Victoria University, New Zealand.Google Scholar
Rüppell, W.P.E.S. (1835–1838) Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres. Frankfurt-am-Main. [1835: p. 1–28, pls. 1–7; 1836: p. 29–52, pls. 8–14; 1837: p. 53–80, pls. 15–21; 1838: p. 81–148, pls. 22–33.]Google Scholar
Springer, V.G. (1968) Osteology and classification of the fishes of the family Blenniidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 284, 1–85. pls. 1–11.Google Scholar
Springer, V.G. (1993) Definition of the suborder Blennioidei and its included families (Pisces: Perciformes). Bulletin of Marine Science 52, 472–495.Google Scholar
Springer, V.G. and Gomon, M.F. (1975) Variation in the western Atlantic clinid fish Malacoctenus triangulates with a revised key to the Atlantic species of Malacoctenus. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 200, 11 pp.Google Scholar
Taylor, W.R. and Van Dyke, G.C. (1985) Revised procedures for clearing skeleton of teleosts (Actinopterygii: Osteichthyes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 97, 189–213.Google Scholar