Do colour-morphs of an amphidromous goby represent different species? Taxonomy of Lentipes (Gobiiformes) from Japan and Palawan, Philippines, with phylogenomic approaches

• Published in: Systematics and biodiversity Vol. 19; no. 8; pp. 1080 - 1112
• Main Authors: Maeda, Ken, Kobayashi, Hirozumi, Palla, Herminie P., Shinzato, Chuya, Koyanagi, Ryo, Montenegro, Javier, Nagano, Atsushi J., Saeki, Toshifumi, Kunishima, Taiga, Mukai, Takahiko, Tachihara, Katsunori, Laudet, Vincent, Satoh, Noriyuki, Yamahira, Kazunori
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 17.11.2021
• Subjects: Amphidromy; biodiversity; color; colouration; courtship; ddRAD-seq; females; genome-wide SNPs; Gobiiformes; goby; haplotypes; Japan; Lentipes; males; mitochondria; mitochondrial genome; morphometry; new species; Philippines; reproductive isolation

We document four male colour morphs of the Indo-Pacific goby genus Lentipes in Japan and the Philippines. Despite distinctive colour patterns, males of the different morphs could not be distinguished by meristic or morphometric characters. In contrast, co-occurring females had very similar colourati...