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Lake Tana large barbs: phenetics, growth and diversification
Author(s) -
Mina M. V.,
Mironovsky A. N.,
Dgebuadze Yu.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1996.tb01435.x
Subject(s) - biology , sympatric speciation , divergence (linguistics) , barbus , range (aeronautics) , sympatry , zoology , cyprinidae , allometry , principal component analysis , species complex , ecology , fish <actinopterygii> , phylogenetic tree , fishery , artificial intelligence , computer science , composite material , philosophy , linguistics , materials science , biochemistry , gene
Among the Lake Tana large barbs of about 10 cm SL only representatives of the‘ acute’morphotype can be distinguished, in the size range 10–20 cm SL‘ bigmouth big eye’ can be identified also. As for the rest, very few individuals can be confidently affiliated with a particular morphotype most of them looking like‘ intermedius’. Even within the range of 20–30 cm SL some individuals are still difficult to identify. Principal component analysis of cranial characters revealed discrete groups of morphotypes. Differences in both external and cranial characters of the morphotypes result from divergence which is most pronounced when fish are 4–5 years old and 20–25 cm SL. This divergence cannot be related exclusively with differences in the growth rates of individuals representing different morphotypes. Differences in food composition between the morphotypes probably increase in parallel with their morphological divergence. Differences between the morphotypes in the lateral line (11) and the gill rakers (Sb) counts were revealed using ANOVA. Comparison of the Lake Tana Barbus complex of forms with that previously known from Lake Lanao (Philippines) suggests that in both lakes the different forms arose sympatrically but that sympatric speciation in Lake Lanao has advanced further than in Lake Tana.