[Taxacom] Another top ten species celebration - marine decadal and annual

[Kenneth Kinman]

Thanks Geoff,

       That living fossil, new genus Protanguilla (new Family Protanguillidae), discovered in 2010, is particularly interesting.  But perhaps even more interesting is a bit of a challenge to it being alone as a living fossil, as it has been more recently proposed that it is not alone in being the most primitive eel family, but is part of a Suborder Protanguilloidei which also includes Family Synaphobranchidae:


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790313003448?via%3Dihub


However, even more recent proposals list Synaphobrachoidei as a Suborder separate from Protanguilloidei, so I guess the exact basal relationships of eels is still an open question.  Is Family Protanguillidae alone the sister group of other eels, or is the sister group actually Protanguillidae plus Synaphobrachidae?  Are molecular and morphological data in conflict here?



                  ------------------Ken Kinman


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FYI.  Some public taxonomic outreach from WoRMS.

2017 marked a decade since the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
was established.

http://www.lifewatch.be/en/worms-top10-2007-2017

http://www.lifewatch.be/en/worms-top10-2017

http://www.lifewatch.be/en/2018.04.23-WoRMS-LifeWatch-press-release

On twitter #top10marinespp

(sent this yesterday from work, but apparently into the endless void)

Geoff Read


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