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Morphometrics of eight Chinese cavefish species
Chinese cavefishes are a bizarre and interesting vertebrate taxa, but one with relatively little research. China holds the highest global cavefish diversity, accounting for about one-third of known species. Sinocyclocheilus is the largest genus of cavefishes in the world and is endemic to the south...
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author | Lunghi, Enrico Zhao, Yang Sun, Xueying Zhao, Yahui |
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description | Chinese cavefishes are a bizarre and interesting vertebrate taxa, but one with relatively little research. China holds the highest global cavefish diversity, accounting for about one-third of known species. Sinocyclocheilus is the largest genus of cavefishes in the world and is endemic to the south of China. The distribution of Sinocyclocheilus species is very narrow, and sometimes they inhabit just a single cave; this feature increases the vulnerability to extinction. With this study we provide the first comprehensive dataset related to the morphometrics of eight Sinocyclocheilus species. In addition to enhancing our knowledge on these poorly known species we aim to provide a dataset useful for future comparative analyses aiming to better understand the adaptive ability of cavefishes. |
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spelling | pubmed-68147792019-10-30 Morphometrics of eight Chinese cavefish species Lunghi, Enrico Zhao, Yang Sun, Xueying Zhao, Yahui Sci Data Data Descriptor Chinese cavefishes are a bizarre and interesting vertebrate taxa, but one with relatively little research. China holds the highest global cavefish diversity, accounting for about one-third of known species. Sinocyclocheilus is the largest genus of cavefishes in the world and is endemic to the south of China. The distribution of Sinocyclocheilus species is very narrow, and sometimes they inhabit just a single cave; this feature increases the vulnerability to extinction. With this study we provide the first comprehensive dataset related to the morphometrics of eight Sinocyclocheilus species. In addition to enhancing our knowledge on these poorly known species we aim to provide a dataset useful for future comparative analyses aiming to better understand the adaptive ability of cavefishes. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6814779/ /pubmed/31653865 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0257-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ applies to the metadata files associated with this article. |
spellingShingle | Data Descriptor Lunghi, Enrico Zhao, Yang Sun, Xueying Zhao, Yahui Morphometrics of eight Chinese cavefish species |
title | Morphometrics of eight Chinese cavefish species |
title_full | Morphometrics of eight Chinese cavefish species |
title_fullStr | Morphometrics of eight Chinese cavefish species |
title_full_unstemmed | Morphometrics of eight Chinese cavefish species |
title_short | Morphometrics of eight Chinese cavefish species |
title_sort | morphometrics of eight chinese cavefish species |
topic | Data Descriptor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6814779/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31653865 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0257-5 |
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