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标题：Two new species of Xiphophorus (Poeciliidae) from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, with a discussion of the distribution of the X. clemenciae clade. American Museum novitates ; no. 3441
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作者：Kallman ; Klaus D.,Walter ; Ronald B.,Morizot 等
期刊名称：American Museum Novitates
印刷版ISSN：0003-0082
电子版ISSN：1937-352X
出版年度：2004
卷号：2004
页码：26-27
出版社：American Museum of Natural History
摘要："The swordtail, Xiphophorus clemenciae (Poeciliidae), has been considered a species of special concern because of its apparent limited range. Although described in 1959, it is officially still known only from three locations in the Rio Coatzacoalcos basin, Mexico. Zoogeographic studies have now shown that this species is widespread and abundant but restricted to the uplands of the Rio Coatzacolacos basin where it replaces in many areas the common swordtail, X. helleri. Two new swordtail taxa, X. mixei and X. monticolus, are described from headwater streams of the Rio Jaltepec, a major Rio Coatzacoalcos tributary, Oaxaca, Mexico. The new forms are sympatric in part of their range and replace both X. clemenciae and X. helleri. Morphometric and molecular analyses revealed that X. clemenciae and the two new species constitute a monophyletic clade that exhibits a closer evolutionary affinity to the 'northern' swordtails and the 'platyfish' group of the genus rather than to X. helleri and th...