Description of larvae of Eleotris perniger (Teleostei: Eleotridae) in transition from saltwater to freshwater from Montserrat, West Indies
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Larvae of the Smallscaled Spinycheek Sleeper (Eleotris perniger) in transition from saltwater to freshwater were identified using COI and 16S gene sequences and the morphology and color pattern were then described. Available freshwater habitat for this species on Montserrat is minimal and continued existence is threatened by potential water withdrawals.
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COI, 16S, Smallscale Spinycheek Sleeper, Caribbean Island, amphidromy
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Barclay, J., J. Alexander, & J. Sušnik. 2007. Rainfall-induced lahars in the Belham Valley, Montserrat, West Indies. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 164: 815–827.
Cooney, P. B., & T. G. Kwak. 2013. Spatial extent and dynamics of dam impacts on tropical island freshwater fish assemblages. BioScience, 63: 176–190.
Engman, A. C. 2007. Amphidromous fish recruitment and its ecological role in Caribbean freshwater-marine ecotones. Ph.D. Thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, 169 pp.
Guinarães-Costa, A., M. Vallinoto, T. Giarrizzo, F. Pezold, H. Schneider, & I. Sampaio. 2016. Molecular evidence of two new species of Eleotris (Gobiiformes: Eleotridae) in the Western Atlantic. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 98: 52–56.
Hall, T. A. 1999. BioEdit: A user-friendly biological sequence-alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acids Symposium Series, 41: 95–98.
Kwak, T. J., P. B. Cooney, & C. H. Brown. 2007. Fishery population and habitat assessment in Puerto Rican streams. Phase I, Final Report. Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Project F–50. U.S. Geological Survey, North Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Depart ment of Biology, North Carolina State University, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
195 pp.
McDowall, R. M. 1997. The evolution of diadromy in fishes (revisited) and its place in phylogenetic analysis. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 7: 443–462.
Nordlie, F. G. 2012. Life-history characteristics of eleotrid fishes of the Western hemisphere, and perils of life in a vanishing environment. Review of Fisheries Biology and Fisheries, 22: 189–224.
Palumbi, S. R., A. Martin, W. O. McMillan, L. Stice, & G. Grabowski. 1991. The simple fool’s guide to PCR, version 2.0. Department of Zoology and Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, 45 pp.
Pezold, F., & B. Cage. 2001. A review of the spinycheek sleepers, genus Eleotris (Teleostei: Eleotridae), of the Western hemisphere, with comparison to West African species. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, 32: 1–45.
Schmidt, R. E., & E. R. McMullin. 2015. Fresh and brackish-water fishes observed on Montserrat, Lesser Antilles, West Indies. Caribbean Naturalist, 25: 1–12.
Silberschneider, V., B. C. Pease, & D. J. Booth. 2001. A novel artificial habitat collection device for studying resettlement patterns in anguillid glass eels. Journal of Fish Biology, 58: 1359–1370.
Smith, K. L., I. Corujo Flores, & Cm. Pringle. 2008. A comparison of current and historical fish assemblages in a Caribbean island estuary: Conservation value of historical data. Aquatic Conservation of Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 18: 993–1004.
Sullivan, M. C., M. J. Wuenschel, & K.W. Able. 2009. Inter and intra-estuary variability in ingress, condition, and settlement of the American eel Anguilla rostrata: Implications for estimating and understanding recruitment. Journal of Fish Biology, 74: 1949–1969.
Victor, B. 2016. A photographic guide to the larvae of coral reef fishes. Suborder Gobioidei. Available at: www.coralreeffish.com (accessed: July 15, 2020).
Ward, R. D., T. S. Zemlak, B. H. Innes, P. R. Last, & P. D. N. Hebert. 2005. DNA barcoding Australia’s fish species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 360: 1847–1857.
Yeung, C., & D. Ruple. 2006. Eleotridae: Sleepers, pp. 2079–2087. In: Richards, W. J. (Ed) Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2640 pp.
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Schmidt, R. E., McMullin, E., Wright, J. J., & Weatherwax, B. (2021). Description of larvae of Eleotris perniger (Teleostei: Eleotridae) in transition from saltwater to freshwater from Montserrat, West Indies. Novitates Caribaea, (18), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi18.263
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