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First Geographical Record and Re-description of White Mouth Jack Uraspis Uraspis (Günther, 1860) From Andaman and Nicobar Islands With a Detailed Phylogenetic Analysis Based Validation for the Morphological Identification

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A single specimen of Uraspis uraspis was collected in the gillnet landings from the coast of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The present study reports the first geographical record and redescription of Uraspis uraspis from this region. The specimen was identified morphologically and reconfirmed through molecular barcoding. DNA was extracted from the specimen, and the partial region of the cox1 gene was amplified and sequenced. The obtained partial sequence was edited to remove ambiguous nucleotides resulting in a 625 bp long sequence. The sequence was then submitted to the NCBI’s GenBank database (GenBank accession number MZ766929.1). The main distinguishing characteristics of U. uraspis were white tongue, white palate membrane, and naked breast area. Phylogenetic reconstruction of 604 base paired aligned sequence was compared with barcodes of 93 sequences of similar and different species. Upon construction of the maximum likelihood, Neighbor-joining and MrBayes tree, Andaman isolate of Uraspis uraspis species was found to be forming a distinct clade with other species of Uraspis with high statistical support. Analysis of intraspecific and interspecific genetic distance also showed the similarity between Andaman isolate and U. uraspis from other regions (intraspecific genetic distance < 0.01) and the difference between different species of the same genus (interspecific genetic distance > 0.02). Genetic distance values between and within species also supported the distinct clade formation of Uraspis sp. in the phylogenetic trees.

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The data supporting the findings of this research are available upon request. Please contact corresponding author at (s.venu1974@gmail.com) for inquiries related to data availability and access.

Abbreviations

CR:

Control Region,

Cyt:

Cytochrome region

DNA:

Deoxyribonucleic acid

COI:

Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1

PCR:

Polymerase chain reaction

Taq:

Thermus aquaticus

dNTP:

Deoxynucleotide triphosphate,

MUSCLE:

MUltiple Sequence Comparison by Log Expectation

MEGA:

Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis

BIC:

Bayesian Information Criterion

GTR + G + I:

General time reversible (Gamma distributed, invariant sites)

DAMBE:

Data analysis in molecular biology and evolution

ML:

Maximum likelihood

NJ:

Neighbour Joining

MEGA:

Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis

BT:

Bootstrap

DnaSP:

(Deoxyribonucleic acid Sequence Polymorphism

MCMC:

Markov Chain Monte Carlo

PP:

Posterior probability

NCBI:

National Center for Biotechnology Information

HL:

Head length

SL:

Standard length

G:

Guanine

T:

Thymine

C:

Cytosine

A:

Adenine

BLAST:

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

Cox I:

Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1

K2P:

Kimura two-parameter

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Ramees, P.V.M., Kashyap, K., Venu, S. et al. First Geographical Record and Re-description of White Mouth Jack Uraspis Uraspis (Günther, 1860) From Andaman and Nicobar Islands With a Detailed Phylogenetic Analysis Based Validation for the Morphological Identification. Thalassas 40, 237–248 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-023-00633-7

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