Abstract
To investigate the influence of the Kuroshio Current on the high diversity of marine fishes in Japanese waters, the intraspecific phylogeographic structure of Blacktip Grouper, Epinephelus fasciatus, was determined. The genetic analysis of E. fasciatus indicated three intraspecific mtDNA lineages representing different evolutionary histories: the first lineage differentiated in Japanese waters during a long period of fluctuations of the ancient Kuroshio Current, the second lineage, widely distributed in the tropical western Pacific, was transported to Japanese waters by the Kuroshio Current and the third lineage was distributed primarily around the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands. Present-day sympatric distributions of the three lineages, characterized by different ratios of such individuals at each geographic site, indicated a complex genetic pattern that was classified into three demographic groups, the dispersal and gene flows of which were strongly influenced by the Kuroshio Current and factors such as countercurrent and island arc. Genetic breaks in E. fasciatus populations were congruent with other fish faunal boundaries in Japanese waters.
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