Characidium serrano Buckup & Reis, 1997 (Characiformes, Crenuchidae): insights into phylogenetic relationships, and comments on distribution

Wilson Serra; Fabrizio  Scarabino; Ezequiel  Méttola; Martín Miguel Montes; Guillermo  Terán; Melisa  Moncada; Germán  Sanguinetti; Alejandro  Duarte; Matías  García

doi:10.30550/j.azl/2097

Authors

Wilson S. Serra Sección Ictiología, Dpto. de Zoología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0032-9335
Fabrizio Scarabino Centro Universitario Regional del Este (CURE) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0994-0253
Ezequiel Méttola Fundación Miguel Lillo – Unidad Ejecutora Lillo FML-UEL-CONICET https://orcid.org/0009-0009-3334-3927
Martín Miguel Montes Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y Vectores (CEPAVE), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (CCT, CONICET-UNLP) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7177-333X
Guillermo Terán Fundación Miguel Lillo – Unidad Ejecutora Lillo FML-UEL-CONICET https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3795-3345
Melisa Moncada Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y Vectores (CEPAVE), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (CCT, CONICET-UNLP) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1728-9296
Germán Sanguinetti Baltazar Brum 445, Canelones, Canelones, Uruguay https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1281-0186
Alejandro Duarte Departamento de Acuicultura y Aguas Continentales, Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos (DINARA) https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7711-4602
Matías García Teniente Rinaldi 4870 EE, Montevideo, Uruguay https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1348-7485

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30550/j.azl/2097

Keywords:

Characidiinae, Cuareim River basin, COI marker, conservation priority

Abstract

Characidium is the most diverse genus within the family Crenuchidae, with a total of 88 valid species, although there is evidence that it is probably a polyphyletic group. Recent expeditions to northern Uruguay revealed the first records of Characidium serrano Buckup & Reis, 1997, extending its distribution in about 300 km to the south and allowing
to consider it as an endangered species for Uruguay, considering its restricted distribution in the country. Different phylogenetic reconstructions and comparisons based on COI (Model-based analysis, Parsimony analysis and Evolutionary Divergence between sequences) of new se
quences with those previously published indicate: 1) a closer phylogenetic relationship of C. serrano with C. clistenesi or alternatively with (C. rachovii + C. orientale) than with C. pterostictum and 2) non-coincident topologies that in all cases suggest the non-monophyly of Characidium.
The analyzed sequences of the genus Characidium formed 9 main stables groups that are obtained in each of the analyzes carried out, which were also recovered in studies previously performed by other authors, but with general topologies not coincident and poorly supported in their basal nodes.

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