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The genetic population structure and the diagnostic characters of Malacocottus gibber from the Japan Sea and Malacocottus zonurus from the Okhotsk Sea and the northwestern Pacific were compared. Analysis of the nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial control region revealed no genetic differences between the populations of M. gibber and M. zonurus, even though most individuals of both the species were found to be morphologically distinct. Most of the Malacocottus gibber specimens had the typical morphological characters of this species, namely the absence of an accessory spine on the preopercle of both sides and the absence of modified body scales above the lateral line. All the specimens of M. zonurus had accessory spines on both sides, and most of them had modified body scales. The results of this study suggest that M. gibber should be treated as a subspecies or a synonym of M. zonurus. The nested clade analysis and the analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) showed that the Japanese Malacocottus fishes are genetically homogenous over their geographical range. The mismatch distribution of the Japanese Malacocottus fishes indicated that a sudden population expansion had occurred recently. The contrast in phylogeographic structures between the Malacocottus fish and the zoarcid Bothrocara hollandi—the most dominant deep-sea demersal fish in the Japan Sea—might be attributed to the differences in the depths of the habitats and larval ecology between these two fishes.
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The authors thank the captains, officers, and crews of R/Vs Tansei-maru and Hakuho-maru (Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo/Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology) and R/V Wakataka-maru (Tohoku National Fisheries Institute) for their support in sampling specimens. This study was supported in part by a grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (No. 12NP0201).
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Adachi, T., Hagihara, S., Itoh, M. et al. Genetic population structure and morphological characters of Japanese psychrolutids of genus Malacocottus (Scorpaeniformes: Psychrolutidae). Ichthyol Res 56, 323–329 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-009-0101-6
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