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Speciation of two sympatric coastal fish species, Girella punctata and Girella leonina (Perciformes, Kyphosidae)
Authors:Shiro Itoi  Takashi Saito  Sayaka Washio  Mai Shimojo  Noriyuki Takai  Kiyoshi Yoshihara  Haruo Sugita  
Institution:aDepartment of Marine Science and Resources, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8510, Japan
Abstract:Girella punctata and Girella leonina are sympatric sister species showing extensive distributional overlap in shallow rocky reefs in the Pacific Ocean south of the Japanese Islands. Differences between the two species in external morphological characters, such as number of pored lateral line scales, colour of opercular flap and shape of caudal fin, are congruent with genetic divergence. Nucleotide identity between the two species in the 3.3 kbp region of partial mitochondrial DNA containing the D-loop region, in 12S and 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and transfer RNA genes is 95%. To estimate divergence time, Bayesian analysis was conducted using a dataset comprising concatenated nucleotide sequences from the two rRNA genes of three girellid and nine other fish species. Using the Elopomorpha – Clupeocephala split (265 million years ago (mya)) as a calibration point, divergence between G. punctata and G. leonina is estimated as having occurred 6.0±1.4 mya. Speciation is suggested to have been caused by geographical isolation associated with formation of the Japanese Islands, which resulted in disjunction of Girella habitat.
Keywords:Girella mezina  Biogeography  Molecular clock  mtDNA  12S rRNA  16S rRNA
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