Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of freshwater gobies of genus,
Rhinogobius from Laos and Thailand with comment on the unusual gene
duplication of mitochondrial genome
I-Shiung Chen*, Maurice Kottelat and Ping-Hwa Liu
國立海洋生物博物館
The gobiid genus Rhinogobius is widely-distributed around the West Pacific. The
species occurring in the freshwaters of Laos and Thailand including 4 species new to
science. A preliminary survey of molecular phylogeny of some purely freshwater taxa
shows that they belong to the same calde as non-diadromous Chinese species with
similar life history. The very unusual phenomenon as gene duplication in
mitochondrial genome is reported here for the first time from fish sequences. The
possible occurrence of replication models is discussed.