Tethyan closure drove tropical marine biodiversity: Vicariant diversification of intertidal crustaceans

H Liu, S Li, A Ugolini, F Momtazi… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The mid‐Miocene closure of the Tethys (Terminal Tethyan Event, TTE) induced
by the collision of the African–Arabian plate with the Eurasian plate is considered to be a …

A bridge too far: dispersal barriers and cryptic speciation in an Arabian Peninsula grouper (Cephalopholis hemistiktos)

MA Priest, JD DiBattista, JL McIlwain… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We use genetic and age‐based analyses to assess the evidence for a biogeographical
barrier to larval dispersal in the yellowfin hind, Cephalopholis hemistiktos, a commercially …

[HTML][HTML] Pachyseris inattesa sp. n.(Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia): a new reef coral species from the Red Sea and its phylogenetic relationships

TI Terraneo, ML Berumen, R Arrigoni, Z Waheed… - ZooKeys, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A new scleractinian coral species, Pachyseris inattesa sp. n., is described from the Red Sea.
Despite a superficial resemblance with some species in the agariciid genus Leptoseris with …

Phylogeography of the sergeants Abudefduf sexfasciatus and A. vaigiensis reveals complex introgression patterns between two widespread and sympatric Indo …

JAM Bertrand, P Borsa, WJ Chen - Molecular Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
On evolutionary timescales, sea level oscillations lead to recurrent spatio‐temporal variation
in species distribution and population connectivity. In this situation, applying classical …

Late Quaternary to Recent diversity of fish otoliths from the Red Sea, central Mediterranean, and NE Atlantic sea bottoms

CH Lin, YP Chiang, VM Tuset, A Lombarte, A Girone - Geobios, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite extensive studies on the taxonomy of fossil otoliths, the diversity of late Quaternary
to Recent sea bottom otolith assemblages remains largely unexplored. Otolith assemblages …

Fishes and connectivity of Red Sea coral reefs

ML Berumen, MB Roberts, TH Sinclair-Taylor… - Coral reefs of the Red …, 2019 - Springer
The coral reefs of the Red Sea are host to a diverse fish fauna. Ichthyofauna studies began
in the Red Sea during expeditions undertaken by some of the earliest European naturalists …

Regal phylogeography: Range-wide survey of the marine angelfish Pygoplites diacanthus reveals evolutionary partitions between the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and …

RR Coleman, JA Eble, JD DiBattista, LA Rocha… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
The regal angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus; family Pomacanthidae) occurs on reefs from the
Red Sea to the central Pacific, with an Indian Ocean/Rea Sea color morph distinct from a …

Speciation history of European (Anguilla anguilla) and American eel (A. rostrata), analysed using genomic data

N Nikolic, S Liu, MW Jacobsen, B Jónsson… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Speciation in the ocean could differ from terrestrial environments due to fewer barriers to
gene flow. Hence, sympatric speciation might be common, with American and European eel …

Forgotten in the taxonomic literature: resurrection of the scleractinian coral genus Sclerophyllia (Scleractinia, Lobophylliidae) from the Arabian Peninsula and its …

R Arrigoni, ML Berumen, TI Terraneo… - Systematics and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The monospecific scleractinian coral genus Sclerophyllia Klunzinger, was originally
described from Al-Qusayr (Egypt) in the Red Sea based on a series of solitary specimens …

Species delimitation in the coral genus Goniopora (Scleractinia, Poritidae) from the Saudi Arabian Red Sea

TI Terraneo, F Benzoni, R Arrigoni… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
Variable skeletal morphology, genotype induced plasticity, and homoplasy of skeletal
structures have presented major challenges for scleractinian coral taxonomy and …