Morphological and genetic identification of formalin-fixed gobioid larvae and description of postflexion larvae of Paragunnellichthys sp. and Ctenogobiops feroculus

• Published in: Ichthyological Research Vol. 68; no. 1; pp. 182 - 190
• Main Authors: Hanahara, Nozomi, Miyamoto, Kei, Oka, Shin-ichiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo Springer Science and Business Media LLC 01.01.2021; Springer Japan; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Biomedical and Life Sciences; coasts; Ctenogobiops feroculus; Ecology; Formaldehyde; formalin; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; genes; genetic testing; Identification; Larvae; Life Sciences; Marine fishes; Mitochondria; Morphology; Nucleic acids; Nucleotide sequence; Paragunnellichthys; ribosomal RNA; RNA; rRNA 12S; Ryukyu Archipelago; Short Report; Zoology; 12S rRNA; Fish larvae; Goby; DNA barcoding; Molecular identification

Gobioid larvae collected from the coast of Okinawa Island, southern Japan, were identified on the basis of a combination of morphological characters and a sequence of a hypervariable region of mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA (12S rRNA) gene (138–145 base pairs). A short-term formalin fixation techni...