Cichlid biogeography: comment and review

  1. Prosanta Chakrabarty

Article first published online: 24 MAY 2004

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2004.00148.x

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Fish and Fisheries

Fish and Fisheries

Volume 5, Issue 2, pages 97–119, June 2004

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Chakrabarty, P. (2004), Cichlid biogeography: comment and review. Fish and Fisheries, 5: 97–119. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2004.00148.x

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  1. Museum of Zoology, Fish Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, MI, USA

*Prosanta Chakrabarty, Museum of Zoology, Fish Division, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, MI, USA Tel.: +734 647 2192 Fax: +734 763 4080 E-mail: pchakrab@umich.edu

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 24 MAY 2004
  2. Article first published online: 24 MAY 2004
  3. Received 25 Feb 2003 Accepted 4 Mar 2004

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Keywords:

  • Cichlidae;
  • Gondwana;
  • historical biogeography;
  • vicariance

Abstract

Phylogenetic analyses dealing with disjunct distributions (distributions that require marine dispersal or vicariant events) are reviewed for the Cichlidae. The most corroborated relationship between clades across a Gondwanan disjunction is the sister relationship between Indian and Malagasy cichlids. The minimum age of the Cichlidae as implied by the fossil record is at odds with the timing of the Cretaceous break of the Indian–Madagascar landmass. All well sampled phylogenies for this group fit a pattern reflecting Gondwanan break-up. Grounds for strictly dispersalist hypotheses are not well founded for any cichlid disjunct distribution, leaving vicariance alternatives as the only explanation.

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