Data from: Phylogenomic, morphological and acoustic data support a revised taxonomy of the lissodelphinine dolphin subfamily
Data files
Feb 19, 2025 version files 209.08 MB
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Galatius_et_al_ASTRAL_tree.txt
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Galatius_et_al_gene_trees.txt
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Galatius_et_al_mitochondrial.txt
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Galatius_et_al_nuclear_RAXML.nex
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Galatius_et_al_RAML_gene_partitions.txt
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Galatius_et_al_RAXML_tree.txt
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README.md
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Abstract
The dolphin genus Lagenorhynchus has included six species of dolphins characterized by short, wide rostra. Genetic analyses have consistently found the genus to be polyphyletic with four of the species being included in the subfamily Lissodelphininae. A recent paper synthesized available molecular, morphological and acoustic evidence to support a taxonomic revision of the genus, assigning L. obliquidens, L. obscurus, L. australis and L. cruciger to the genus Sagmatias within Lissodelphiniae. Here, we add new phylogenomic data to a previously analyzed dataset including over 3000 nuclear genes and complete mitochondrial genomes and reevaluate morphological and acoustic evidence for the phylogenetic relationships among the Lissodelphininae. We find strong molecular evidence that L. australis and L. cruciger are more closely related to the four members of the genus Cephalorhynchus than they are to L. obliquidens and L. obscurus. Independently of the molecular data, the available morphological and acoustic evidence supports these relationships. As a consequence, to achieve monophyletic taxonomic units, we propose inclusion of L. australis and L. cruciger in Cephalorhynchus. As Sagmatias australis is the type species of Sagmatias, which now falls in synonymy with Cephalorhynchus, and as there is no previous available generic name for L. obliquidens and L. obscurus, we propose a new genus for these two species, Aethalodelphis, meaning sooty or dusky dolphin.
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.6t1g1jx8v
Description of the data and file structure
Galatius_et_al_nuclear_RAXML.nex: Nuclear data set concatenated by gene
Galatius_et_al_RAML_gene_partitions.txt: Partitions of each gene in RAXML format to be used with the nuclear data set
Galatius_et_al_RAXML_tree.txt: RAXML tree generated from nuclear concatenated analysis
Galatius_et_al_mitochondrial.txt: Mitochondrial genome data set
Galatius_et_al_gene_trees.txt: ASTRAL input of gene trees generated for each gene in nuclear data set
Galatius_et_al_ASTRAL_tree.txt: ASTRAL tree generated from the nuclear gene trees
