Bathygobius mystacium

Tornabene, Luke & Pezold, Frank, 2011, Phylogenetic analysis of Western Atlantic Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae), Zootaxa 3042, pp. 27-36 : 32

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.200832
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6189178
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scientific name	Bathygobius mystacium
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Bathygobius mystacium View in CoL and B. geminatus

Bathygobius mystacium View in CoL is both morphologically and genetically distinct from most other New World Bathygobius View in CoL species, although it overlaps with B. geminatus View in CoL in some meristic counts and morphometric measurements. The neighbor-joining tree of Tornabene et al. (2010) showed these two species as being genetically similar, however the phylogeny from our concatenated dataset failed to resolve the placement of B. mystacium View in CoL . Bathygobius geminatus View in CoL was resolved as the sister species to the B. soporator View in CoL group, however we refrain from including this species in the B. soporator View in CoL group as the posterior probability value of this relationship was a modest 0.70. The relationships between B. geminatus View in CoL , B. mystacium View in CoL and their congeners were variable and were not well-supported across each of the individual gene trees. The Wagner parsimony tree from Miller & Smith (1989) generated from morphological data shows B. mystacium View in CoL as the basal member of a clade also containing B. soporator View in CoL and B. andrei View in CoL . This relationship is not supported by any of our analyses.