Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-28
Page range: 92–112
Abstract views: 190
PDF downloaded: 1

Hemibates koningsi spec. nov: a new deep-water cichlid (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika

SNSB-Bavarian State Collection Zoology, Münchhausenstr. 21, 81247 München, Germany.
SNSB-Bavarian State Collection Zoology, Münchhausenstr. 21, 81247 München, Germany.
Pisces Lake Tanganyika Bathybatini Hemibates new species

Abstract

Hemibates koningsi, new species, is described from southern Lake Tanganyika (Republic of Zambia) as the second species of Hemibates Regan, 1920. Males of the new species are easily distinguished from H. stenosoma (Boulenger, 1901) based on their adult color pattern, i.e. black vertical bars on the anterior flanks part and posterior horizontal bands on a silvery-whitish body coloration vs. an anterior flank color pattern of black blotches of variable number, size and shape and posterior horizontal bands. Males and females of the new species are further distinguished by their longer lower pharyngeal jaw (37.6–38.2% HL vs. 27.8–32.5% HL) with a characteristically curved keel, which is straight or only slightly curved towards the tips in H. stenosoma. The new species has on average fewer gill rakers on the first gill arch than its only congener (33–37 vs 35–43).

 

References

  1. Bailey, R.M. & Stewart, D.J. (1977) Cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika: additions to the Zambian fauna including two new species. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan, 679, 1–30.

    Barel, C.D.N., van Oijen, M.J.P., Witte, F. & Witte-Maas, E.L.M. (1977) An introduction to the taxonomy and morphology of the haplochromine Cichlidae from Lake Victoria. Netherlands Journal of Zoology, 27 (4), 333–389.

    Boulenger, G.A. (1898) Report on the fishes recently obtained by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in Lake Tanganyika. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 3, 494–497.

    Boulenger, G.A. (1899) Second contribution to the ichthyology of Lake Tanganyika. -- On the fishes obtained by the Congo Free State Expedition under Lieut. Lemaire in 1898. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 15 (4, 1), 87–96.

    Boulenger, G.A. (1901) Diagnoses of new fishes discovered by Mr. J. E. S. Moore in lakes Tanganyika and Kivu. II. Cichlidae, Mastacembelidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7 (37), 1–6.

    Boulenger, G.A. (1906) Fourth contribution to the ichthyology of Lake Tanganyika. -- Report on the collection of fishes made by Dr. W. A. Cunnington during the Third Tanganyika Expedition, 1904-1905. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 17 (6, 1), 537–601.

    Boulenger, G.A. (1914) Mission Stappers au Tanganyika-Moero. Diagnoses de poissons nouveaux. I. Acanthoptérygiens, Opisthomes, Cyprinodontes. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 3 (3), 442–447.

    Coulter, G.W. (1991) Chapter 8: The benthic fish community. In: Coulter, G.W. (Ed.), Lake Tanganyika and its life. Oxford University Press, London, pp. 151–199.

    Dunz, A. & Schliewen, U.K. (2010) Description of a new species of “Tilapia” Smith, 1840 (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Ghana. Zootaxa, 2548, 1–21.

    Dunz, A.R. & Schliewen, U.K. (2013) Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the haplotilapiine cichlid fishes formerly referred to as "Tilapia". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 68, 64–80.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.03.015

    Duponchelle, F., Paradis, E., Ribbink, A.J. & Turner, G.F. (2008) Parallel life history evolution in mouthbrooding cichlids from the African Great Lakes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (40), 15475–15480.
    https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0802343105

    Genner, M.J., Nichols, P., Carvalho, G.R., Robinson, R.L., Shaw, P.W. & Turner, G.F. (2007) Reproductive isolation among deep-water cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi differing in monochromatic male breeding dress. Molecular Ecology, 16, 651–662.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03173.x

    Hammer, Ø., Harper, D.A.T. & Ryan, P.D. (2001) PAST: Paleontological statistics software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica, 4 (1), 1–9.

    Kearse, M., Moir, R., Wilson, A., Stones-Havas, S., Cheung, M., Sturrock, S., Buxton, S., Cooper, A., Markowitz, S., Duran, C., Thierer, T., Ashton, B., Mentjies, P. & Drummond, A. (2012) Geneious Basic: an integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data. Bioinformatics, 28 (12), 1647–1649.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bts199

    Kirchberger, P.C., Sefc, K.M., Sturmbauer, C. & Koblmüller, S. (2012) Evolutionary history of lake Tangayikaka´s predatory deepwater cichlids. International Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 1–10.
    https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/716209

    Klett, V. & Meyer, A. (2002) What, if anything, is a Tilapia?-mitochondrial ND2 phylogeny of tilapiines and the evolution of parental care systems in the African cichlid fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19 (6), 865–883.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004144

    Knight, M.E. & Turner, G.F. (2004) Laboratory mating trials indicate speciation by sexual selection among populations of the cichlid fish Pseudotropheus zebra from Lake Malawi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Science, 271, 675–680.
    https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2639

    Koblmüller, S., Duftner, N., Katongo, C., Phiri, H. & Sturmbauer, C. (2005) Ancient divergence in bathypelagic Lake Tanganyika deepwater cichlids: Mitochondrial phylogeny of the tribe Bathybatini. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 60, 297–314.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-004-0033-8

    Koblmüller, S., Sefc, K.M. & Sturmbauer, C. (2008) The Lake Tanganyika cichlid species assemblage: recent advances in molecular phylogenetics. Hydrobiologia, 615, 5–20.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-008-9552-4

    Kocher, T.D., Conroy, J.A., McKaye, K.R., Stauffer, J.R. & Lockwood, S.F. (1995) Evolution of NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 in East African cichlid fish. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 4, 420–432.
    https://doi.org/10.1006/mpev.1995.1039

    Konings, A. (1998) Tanganyika cichlids in their natural habitat. Cichlid Press, Texas, El Paso, 272 pp.

    Konings, A. (2015) Tanganyika cichlids in their natural habitat. 3rd Edition. Cichlid Press, Texas, El Paso, 408 pp.

    Maan, M.E., Seehausen, O., Söderberg, L., Johnson, L., Ripmeester, E.A.P, Mrosso, H.D.J., Taylor, M.I., van Dooren, T.J.M. & van Alphen, J.J.M. (2004) Intraspecific sexual selection on a speciation trait, male coloration, in the Lake Victoria cichlid Pundamilia nyererei. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Science, 271, 2445–2452.
    https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2911

    Neumann, D. (2010) Preservation of freshwater fishes in the field. Abc Taxa, 8 (2), 587–632.

    Miller, M.A., Pfeiffer, W. & Schwartz, T. (2010) Creating the CIPRES Science Gateway for inference of large phylogenetic trees. In: Proceedings of the Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE), New Orleans, LA, pp. 1–8.
    https://doi.org/10.1109/GCE.2010.5676129

    Muschick, M., Indermaur, A. & Salzburger, W. (2012) Convergent evolution within an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes. Current Biology, 22, 2362–2368.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.10.048

    Poll, M. (1952) Quatrième série de Cichlidae nouveaux recueillis par la mission hydrobiologique belge au lac Tanganika (1946-1947). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 28 (49), 1–20.

    Poll, M. (1956) Poissons Cichlidae. In: Exploration Hydrobiologique du Lac Tanganika (1946–1947): Résultats scientifiques. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 3 (5B), 390–394.

    Poll, M. (1976) Hemibates bellcrossi sp. n. du lac Tanganika (Pisces, Cichlidae). Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 90 (4), 1017–1020.

    Poll, M. (1986) Classification des Cichlidae du lac Tanganika. Tribus, genres et espèces. Classe des Sciences, Académie royale de Belgique, 45, 1–163.

    Regan, C.T. (1920) The Classification of the Fishes of the Family Cichlidae. - I. The Tanganyika Genera. Annals & Magazine of Natural History Series, 9 (5), 33–53.

    Salzburger, W., Meyer, A., Baric, S., Verheyen, E. & Sturmbauer, C. (2002) Phylogeny of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid species flock and its relationship to the Central and East African haplochromine cichlid fish faunas. Systematic Biology, 51, 113–135.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/106351502753475907

    Schedel, F.D.B., Friel, J.P. & Schliewen, U.K. (2014) Haplochromis vanheusdeni, a new haplochromine cichlid species from the Great Ruaha River drainage, Rufiji basin, Tanzania (Teleostei, Perciformes, Cichlidae). Spixiana, 37 (1), 135–149.

    Schwarzer, J., Misof, B., Tautz, D. & Schliewen, U.K. (2009) The root of the East African cichlid radiations. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 3, 1–11.
    https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-186

    Seehausen, O. & Schluter, D. (2004) Male-male competition and nuptial color displacement as a diversifying force in Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, Biological Science, 271, 1345–1353.
    https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2737

    Stamatakis, A. (2014) RAxML Version 8: A tool for Phylogenetic Analysis and Post- Analysis of Large Phylogenies. Bioinformatics, 30 (9), 1312–1313.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu033

    Steindachner, F. (1911) Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fischfauna des Tanganyikasees und des Kongogebietes. Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 48 (26), 528–530.

    Takahashi, T. (2003) Systematics of Tanganyikan cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes). Ichthyological Research, 50, 367–382.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-003-0181-7

    Takahashi, T. & Sota, T. (2016) A robust phylogeny among major lineages of the East African cichlids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 100, 234–242.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.012

    Weiss, J.D., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Schliewen, U.K. (2015) Lake Tanganyika—A ’Melting Pot’ of ancient and young cichlid lineages (Teleostei: Cichlidae)? PLOS ONE, 10, e0125043.
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125043

    Wagner, C.E., McIntyre, P.B., Buels, K.S., Gilbert, D.M. & Ellinor, M. (2009) Diet predicts intestine length in Lake Tanganyika’s cichlid fishes. Functional Ecology, 23 (6), 1122–1131.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01589.x