Diversity of Phoxinus in Greece: Insights from the genetic data

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Event Abstract Back to Event Diversity of Phoxinus in Greece: Insights from the genetic data Radek Sanda1*, Dovilė Barcytė1, Stamatis Zogaris2 and Jasna Vukic3 1 National Museum, Department of Zoology, Václavské náměstí 68, Czechia 2 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Sciences and Inland Waters, Greece 3 Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, Czechia The knowledge on the diversity of freshwater fishes in Europe has increased considerably during the last two decades. Especially the knowledge on the genus Phoxinus (Cypriniformes, Leuciscidae) has undergone drastic changes. A decade ago, only seven species were recognised. Currently, 18 taxa have been documented, of which seven are undescribed. Such considerable change is mainly due to genetic analyses, as Phoxinus species are morphologically very similar. Phoxinus is present in Greece only in the rivers of northern and eastern Aegean Sea slope, usually these populations are isolated in cool-water sections of streams or spring-fed waters. Apart from Phoxinus strymonicus in the Strymon basin, the remaining populations were of unknown taxonomic status until this investigation. We sampled Phoxinus populations in Greece from five river basins. Mitochondrial and nuclear markers were used. The results revealed the presence of three different lineages in Greece. The Strymon basin and the nearby Marmaras river basin are inhabited by Phoxinus strymonicus. The more easterly located population from the Filiouris basin is closely related to Phoxinus strandjae, though with a considerable genetic divergence from the population of this species from its type locality (Bulgarian Black Sea rivers). Finally, the westernmost basins of Loudias and Aliakmon are, surprisingly, inhabited by populations related to Phoxinus lumaireul, the species otherwise known from the western Balkans. Our data suggest the necessity to re-evaluate the conservation status and management strategy for the genus Phoxinus in Greece. Keywords: Biodiversity, Mediterranean area, Taxonomy, conservation, Multilocus study Conference: XVI European Congress of Ichthyology, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2 Sep - 6 Sep, 2019. Presentation Type: Poster Topic: TAXONOMY, PHYLOGENY AND ZOOGEOGRAPHY Citation: Sanda R, Barcytė D, Zogaris S and Vukic J (2019). Diversity of Phoxinus in Greece: Insights from the genetic data. Front. Mar. Sci. Conference Abstract: XVI European Congress of Ichthyology. doi: 10.3389/conf.fmars.2019.07.00125 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 30 May 2019; Published Online: 14 Aug 2019. * Correspondence: PhD. Radek Sanda, National Museum, Department of Zoology, Václavské náměstí 68, 115 79 Prague, Czechia, rsanda@seznam.cz Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Radek Sanda Dovilė Barcytė Stamatis Zogaris Jasna Vukic Google Radek Sanda Dovilė Barcytė Stamatis Zogaris Jasna Vukic Google Scholar Radek Sanda Dovilė Barcytė Stamatis Zogaris Jasna Vukic PubMed Radek Sanda Dovilė Barcytė Stamatis Zogaris Jasna Vukic Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.