Abstract
The freshwater mussel genus Oxynaia Haas, 1911 is thought to be comprised of two geographically disjunct and morphologically variable species groups but the monophyly of this taxon has yet to be tested in any modern cladistic sense. This generic hypothesis has important systematic and biogeographic implications as Oxynaia is the type genus of the currently recognized tribe Oxynaiini (Parreysiinae) and is one of the few genera thought to cross several biogeographically important barriers in Southeast Asia. Morphological and molecular data clearly demonstrate that Oxynaia is not monophyletic, and the type species and its allies (O. jourdyi group) belong to the Unioninae, and more specifically as members of the genus Nodularia Conrad, 1853. Therefore, neither Oxynaiasyn. nov. nor Oxynaiini Starobogatov, 1970 are applicable to the Parreysiinae and in the absence of an available name, Indochinellagen. nov. and Indochinellini trib. nov. are described. Several combinations are proposed as follows: Indochinella pugio (Benson, 1862) gen. et comb. nov., Nodularia jourdyi (Morlet, 1886) comb. res., N. gladiator (Ancey, 1881) comb. res., N. diespiter (Mabille, 1887) comb. res. and N. micheloti (Morlet, 1886) comb. res. Finally, we provide an updated freshwater biogeographic division of Southeast Asia.
Highlights
Integrative taxonomic studies are of substantial practical importance to conservation stakeholders as accurate information on the systematics and distributions of biodiversity forms the foundation of taxon- and habitat-based conservation efforts
Several recent systematic efforts focused on Asian lineages have dramatically improved our understanding of the classification, morphological evolution, and biogeography of many tropical freshwater mussel clades[3,4,5,6,7,8,9], many biographically interesting and systematically important taxa remain poorly understood from a phylogenetic perspective
Oxynaia jourdyi is resolved in a shallow and strongly supported clade comprised of representatives of the genus Nodularia Conrad, 1853 (BS/BPP = 100)
Summary
Integrative taxonomic studies are of substantial practical importance to conservation stakeholders as accurate information on the systematics and distributions of biodiversity forms the foundation of taxon- and habitat-based conservation efforts. Several recent systematic efforts focused on Asian lineages have dramatically improved our understanding of the classification, morphological evolution, and biogeography of many tropical freshwater mussel clades[3,4,5,6,7,8,9], many biographically interesting and systematically important taxa remain poorly understood from a phylogenetic perspective. This is true of the genus Oxynaia, which has an unusual disjunct geographic distribution in Myanmar and northern Vietnam and is the type genus of the tribe Oxynaiini Starobogatov, 1970. Our objective is to test the monophyly of the genus Oxynaia, evaluate the morphological traits of the resultant suprageneric clades containing Oxynaia species, and to make the appropriate taxonomic changes to more accurately reflect our hypotheses of evolutionary history
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