A new paper recently published in the J海洋科学基金会这是一篇文章的愚蠢,并拥有有关开曼群岛矮人山羊毛的不可思议的丰富信息。本文的主要目的是描述来自加勒比海开曼群岛的三种新物种,但最终也概述了两者之间紧密相关的物种之间的差异Elacatinus和Tigrigobius.
It’s funny to think that we already have a hard time telling several of the well known species of cleaner or neon gobies apart, such as the genie, evelyn’s and sharknose gobies but now we can add two more species to the mix.Elacatinus Cayman是一种新的清洁型矮人哥比(Goby)的新物种,与E. evelynae和while a specimen was included as a paratype ofE. Genie,它与该物种的共同点较少。
Some of the more commonly encountered species of cleaner gobies are differentiated based on the color, thickness and length of their lateral “neon” stripe. However it takes a close look at E. cayman to notice that it has a pale sometimes yellow lateral stripes内跨越身体长度的蓝色带。
MeanwhileE. evelynaecan have either a yellow or a blue band running down the length of the body – in specimens with a blue stripe the anterior portion is yellow and narrows to an point within the blue band just behind the head. On the other handE. Genie‘s stripe-within-a-stripe is much less noticeable and it actually widens to become just one wider solid band down the length of the body. Still with us?
OK now the next new species of Caribbean cleaner goby is much easier to identify;Elacatinus Centralis在黑色的身体上涂有薄薄的浅条纹,不会像其他许多人那样在头部上涂上颜色。中央清洁剂Goby的细条纹在头部上开始黄色,在身体上褪色为白色,蓝色的阴影略微朝着身体的尽头。最相似的以前已知的加勒比海清洁剂Goby的物种E. centralisisElacatinushorsti,一种显示全黄色条纹的物种,有时在鼻子上带有淡黄色的鼻子或小附件黄色斑点。
Last but definitely not least is a new species of green banded goby in theTigrigobiusgenus. Just a couple years ago another new species ofTigrigobius被描述了,T. rubrigeniswhich looks like the green-banded goby with thinner body stripes and more noticeable red cheek stripe. The newly describedTigrigobius Harveyi本文中的特色没有具有相同的红色脸颊功能,但它的条纹比常见的条纹多得多Tigrigobiusmultifasciatum.
这是一个将本文提炼成关于三个新物种的基本发现的项目。所有这些新发现都是在DNA条形码的帮助下完成的,这表明了多样性,这真的很难与形态学和单独的肉眼分开。如果有一件事可以肯定的是,DNA分析技术肯定会在未来揭示更多隐秘的礁鱼。