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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Contents Vol 21(2)

Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships of subterranean and surface genera of Australian Atyidae (Crustacea : Decapoda : Caridea) inferred with mitochondrial DNA

Timothy J. Page A C , Kristina von Rintelen B and Jane M. Hughes A
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A Australian Rivers Institute, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Qld 4111, Australia.

B Museum of Natural History, Humboldt-University Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115, Berlin, Germany.

C Corresponding author. Email: t.page@griffith.edu.au

Invertebrate Systematics 21(2) 137-145 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS06023
Submitted: 26 June 2006  Accepted: 12 February 2007   Published: 21 May 2007

Abstract

The biogeographic and phylogenetic relationships of six of the eight Australian genera of freshwater shrimp from the family Atyidae were investigated using mitochondrial 16S rDNA and cytochrome oxidase I sequences. Previous studies on two of the epigean genera (Caridina, Paratya) indicate that Australian species have strong links to congenerics from outside, with Australian members of Paratya being monophyletic and Caridina polyphyletic. The present study found that the endemic Australian epigean genus Australatya forms a strong clade with Pacific ‘Atya-like’ genera (Atyoida, Atyopsis), and that the endemic Australian epigean genus Caridinides falls within a clade containing Caridina species from the Australian ‘indistincta’ group. The two hypogean genera included in this study (Parisia, Pycnisia) form a strong clade in all analyses, implying an Australian subterranean speciation. The possibility of a relationship between Parisia/Pycnisia and an Australian Caridina species may have implications for the monophyly of the highly disjunct genus Parisia (Australia, Madagascar, Philippines). Parisia may descend from local Caridina species and represent convergent morphologies.


Acknowledgements

We thank Kaye Stuart, Ben Cook and James Fawcett (Griffith University) for help in the field, and many people from around the world for providing specimens (see bottom of Table 1). Dan Schmidt (Griffith University) helped with analysis and Satish Choy (Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water) and Cai Yixiong (National University of Singapore) helped with some species identifications. Dave Soden (British Museum of Natural History) and Elspeth Wilson (Griffith University Library) helped in tracking down many references. We thank Rod Eastwood (Griffith University) and two anonymous reviewers for reading and commenting on the manuscript. Funding was provided by the CRC for Freshwater Ecology, Australian Postgraduate Award and Tangalooma Marine and Research Foundation.


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