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Rhamphocottus nagaakii (Cottoidea: Rhamphocottidae), a new species of grunt sculpin from the northwestern Pacific, with notes on the phylogeography of the genus Rhamphocottus

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A new species of grunt sculpin, Rhamphocottus nagaakii inhabiting the northwestern Pacific, previously identified as Rhamphocottus richardsonii Günther 1874, is described based on genetic evidence and morphological differences. The new species can be distinguished based on morphometric characters related to the head, including head length [45.3–54.6% of standard length (SL)], postorbital head length (18.8–25.5% SL) and the length of pectoral-fin base (15.8–20.7% SL), which are smaller than in R. richardsonii (53.6–60.5% SL, 26.2–31.7% SL, and 19.5–25.2% SL, respectively). Genetic differences between two species markedly exceed levels for intra-specific differences. Rhamphocottus nagaakii is considered to have arisen from a common ancestor of the two species, which probably inhabited somewhere the North Pacific Rim around the Aleutian Archipelago. During a period of cooling in the Pliocene or the Miocene, R. nagaakii and R. richardsonii became separated to the southern regions of the northwestern and northeastern Pacific, and subsequently underwent speciation.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Katherine Pearson Maslenikov (UWFC) for the loan of specimens; Mamoru Yabe for valuable advice regarding morphological analyses; Fumihito Tashiro for taking X-ray photographs; Noriyoshi Satoh, Motoko Kimura-Kawaguchi, and Phillip Bruecker for assistance with field collections; Theodore W. Pietsch, Jeffery B. Marliave, Jimmer McDonald and Alyssa McDonald for their assistance with research logistics in North America. We are grateful to Yoshiaki Kai for heartful comments for acceptance of the manuscript. This study was supported by Grants-in-Aid from JSPS KAKENHI (Grant/Award Number: 17405019, 25304011, 26292098).

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  1. Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, 152 Usujiri, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-1613, Japan

    Hiroyuki Munehara

  2. Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8611, Japan

    Kouji Togashi, Sayuri Yamada & Takushi Higashimura

  3. Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, 152 Usujiri, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-1613, Japan

    Aya Yamazaki & Shota Suzuki

  4. Minami-Sanriku Nature Center, Shizugawa, Minami-Sanriku cho, Motoyoshi-gun, 101 Numata, Miyagi, 986-0725, Japan

    Shota Suzuki & Takuzo Abe

  5. Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan

    Satoshi Awata

  6. Graduate School of Education, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagito, Gifu, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan

    Yasunori Koya

  7. Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8611, Japan

    Osamu Tsuruoka

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Munehara, H., Togashi, K., Yamada, S. et al. Rhamphocottus nagaakii (Cottoidea: Rhamphocottidae), a new species of grunt sculpin from the northwestern Pacific, with notes on the phylogeography of the genus Rhamphocottus. Ichthyol Res 70, 268–285 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-022-00885-y

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