Glossamiini Fraser & Mabuchi 2014
Creators: name: Mabuchi, Kohji
name: Fraser, Thomas H.
name: Song, Hayeun
name: Azuma, Yoichiro
name: Nishida, Mutsumi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Apogonidae

description: Tribe Glossamiini new name Fraser & Mabuchi
Type genus Glossamia Gill 1863
Diagnosis. Members of the Apogoninae: dorsal fin VI+I,8–10; anal fin II,8–10; pored lateral-line scales 24–50; preopercle ridge smooth edges smooth to serrate; three supraneurals; large supramaxilla present; basisphenoid present, reduced or absent; anterior pair of uroneurals; three epurals; five free hypurals; parhypural separate; two autogenous haemal spines; one supernumerary dorsal spine; caudal fin emarginate, truncate or rounded.
Other characteristics. first dorsal ray unbranched and first anal ray branched and segmented; 9+8 segmented principal caudal rays, 15 branched, upper and lower unbranched; unbranched procurrent rays, longest segmented; head and body with ctenoid scales or cycloid on nape, cheek, opercle, anterior pored lateral-line scales, ctenoid on breast, grading from cycloid to ctenoid posteriorly; pored lateral-line scales simple with one pore on upper side and one on lower side; pectoral fin-rays 13–16; developed gill rakers 7–15; 10+14 vertebrae; 8 ribs; 9 epineurals; teeth in multiple rows on premaxilla, dentary, vomer, palatine, all villiform, present or absent on ectopterygoid; six infraorbitals, bony shelf on third infraorbital; stomach and intestine pale with pale peritoneum; low crest on PU2.
Distribution. Species of Glossamia are found in tidal and flowing freshwaters of Australia and the island of New Guinea. One species is known from Australia (perhaps a species complex) and the rest on the island of New Guinea. The only described species of Yarica is found in tidal streams, flowing freshwater and lowland lakes from Myanmar, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands to New Caledonia and out to Saipan.
Remarks. In the present molecular analyses, Glossamia did not form a robust monophyletic group with any other apogonines (see Figs. 2–6 and Table 5). For this genus, we gave tribe status. We included Yarica (Fig. 7A) in this tribe based solely on morphological data. The present molecular analyses reproduced a relatively robust sister relationship between Yarica and Rhabdamia (clade IX). Species of Rhabdamia have a smaller mouth and slender translucent body with a forked caudal fin (Fig. 7B) consistent with their marine reef pelagic habitat preferences and differ in their osteological characteristics as follows: 1 or 2 supraneurals; fused hypurals plate consisting of hypurals 1+2+3+4 to the terminal centrum; 1–2 rows of villiform teeth on premaxilla or some canine, 1 row of villiform teeth on dentary, vomer and palatine; 7 epineurals on ribs 1–7; shelf on third infraorbital reduced or absent; uroneurals reduced or absent; supramaxilla absent. The cephalic pores are much more complex for Rhabdamia and free neuromasts much less numerous than for Yarica (Bergman 2004, Figs. 11, 29–30). Support for combining Glossamia and Yarica are similar body shapes, freshwater habitat preferences, a large supramaxilla of similar shape, a single supernumerary dorsal spine and 9 epineurals. In spite of non-monophyly in the obtained trees, AU test did not reject the monophyly of Glossamia and Yarica (H06, see Table 6). The wide spread distribution of Yarica indicates that this species has euryhaline characteristics imbedded in its life history.
description: Published as part of Mabuchi, Kohji, Fraser, Thomas H., Song, Hayeun, Azuma, Yoichiro & Nishida, Mutsumi, 2014, Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters, pp. 151-203 in Zootaxa 3846 (2) on pages 180-181, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928545