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in Bernt, Tagliacollo & Albert, 2019. |
Highlights:
• Most species-comprehensive, data-rich phylogeny of the ghost knifefishes to date.
• Multi-locus phylogeny based on three mitochondrial and four nuclear loci.
• Orthosternarchus + Sternarchorhamphus placed sister to all remaining genera.
• Substantial polyphyly within Apteronotus.
• New suprageneric classification for Apteronotidae.
Maxwell J. Bernt, Victor A. Tagliacollo and James S. Albert. 2019. Molecular Phylogeny of the Ghost Knifefishes (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. In Press. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.019