Check List 13(6): 1059-1065, doi: 10.15560/13.6.1059
Morphology and genetics reveal the occurrence of Girardinus falcatus (Eigenmann, 1903) (Cyprinodontiformes, Poeciliidae) in eastern Cuba
Sheila Rodríguez-Machado‡, José L. Ponce de León§, Didier Casane|, Erik García-Machado¶‡ Instituto de Oceanología, La Habana, Cuba§ Cuban Society of Zoology, La Habana, Cuba| Université Paris-Sud, Gif-sur-Yvette, France¶ Universidad de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba
Corresponding author: Sheila Rodríguez-Machado ( sheilaroma89@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Sarah Steele © 2017 Sheila Rodríguez-Machado, José L. Ponce de León, Didier Casane, Erik García-Machado. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Rodríguez-Machado S, Ponce de León JL, Casane D, García-Machado E (2017) Morphology and genetics reveal the occurrence of Girardinus falcatus (Eigenmann, 1903) (Cyprinodontiformes, Poeciliidae) in eastern Cuba. Check List 13(6): 1059-1065. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.1059 |  |
Abstract
Girardinus is a Cuban genus of poeciliid fishes. It comprises 7 freshwater-restricted species most of them inhabiting specific ecosystems or regions within the island. Girardinus falcatus, the Gold-bellied Topminnow, is common in lowlands of western and central Cuba but thought not to be present in the East. Herein we provide the first wellsupported evidence of the occurrence of this species in eastern Cuba. Sixteen specimens were collected and identified primarily by body shape and coloration, and corroborated by gonopodial morphology and by sequences of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome b.
Keywords
Cytochrome b; freshwater ecosystems; Gold-belly Topminnow; gonopodium; range extension