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Modern alongside traditional taxonomy-Integrative systematics of the genera Gymnangium Hincks, 1874 and Taxella Allman, 1874 (Hydrozoa, Aglaopheniidae) Marta Ronowicz, Emilie Boissin, Bautisse Postaire, Chloé A.-F. Bourmaud, Nicole Gravier-Bonnet, P. Schuchert To cite this version: Marta Ronowicz, Emilie Boissin, Bautisse Postaire, Chloé A.-F. Bourmaud, Nicole Gravier-Bonnet, et al.. Modern alongside traditional taxonomy-Integrative systematics of the genera Gymnangium Hincks, 1874 and Taxella Allman, 1874 (Hydrozoa, Aglaopheniidae). PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2017, 12 (4), pp.e0174244. 10.1371/journal.pone.0174244. hal-01564043 HAL Id: hal-01564043 https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01564043 Submitted on 28 Oct 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License RESEARCH ARTICLE Modern alongside traditional taxonomyÐ Integrative systematics of the genera Gymnangium Hincks, 1874 and Taxella Allman, 1874 (Hydrozoa, Aglaopheniidae) Marta Ronowicz1*, Emilie Boissin2, Bautisse Postaire3,4,5, Chloe Annie- France Bourmaud4,5, Nicole Gravier-Bonnet4,5, Peter Schuchert6 a1111111111 1 Department of Marine Ecology, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, 2 USR3278 Centre de Recherche Insulaire et Observatoire de l'environnement, Universite de Perpignan, a1111111111 Perpignan, France, 3 Aix Marseille UniversiteÂ, CNRS, IRD, Avignon UniversiteÂ, IMBE UMR 7263, Marseille, a1111111111 France, 4 Universite de La ReÂunion, UMR ENTROPIE, Faculte des Sciences et Technologies, Saint Denis, a1111111111 France, 5 Laboratoire d'Excellence Corail, Perpignan, France, 6 Natural History Museum of Geneva, a1111111111 Geneva, Switzerland * [email protected] OPEN ACCESS Abstract Citation: Ronowicz M, Boissin E, Postaire B, Bourmaud CA-F, Gravier-Bonnet N, Schuchert P We studied the diversity within the former genus Gymnangium in the South West Indian (2017) Modern alongside traditional taxonomyÐ Ocean by using an integrative approach of both traditional (morphology-based) and modern Integrative systematics of the genera Gymnangium molecular taxonomy. Nine species were recorded in the material collected. A total of 97 16S Hincks, 1874 and Taxella Allman, 1874 (Hydrozoa, mitochondrial DNA sequences and 54 Calmodulin nuclear sequences from eight Gymnan- Aglaopheniidae). PLoS ONE 12(4): e0174244. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174244 gium/Taxella species were analyzed. We found both morphological and molecular differ- ences in the studied Gymnangium species that make it necessary to split the genus. It is Editor: Covadonga Orejas, Instituto Español de OceanografõÂa, SPAIN proposed to revalidate the genus Taxella which is currently regarded as a synonym of Gymnangium. Two species of the genus Taxella (T. eximia and T. gracilicaulis), until now Received: February 17, 2016 regarded as distinct species based on morphological characteristics, cluster together in one Accepted: March 5, 2017 phylogenetic clade. Possible explanations are discussed. Two species from Madagascar Published: April 19, 2017 new to science are herein described and rare species from the Indian Ocean islands are re- Copyright: © 2017 Ronowicz et al. This is an open described. access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information Introduction files. Gymnangium Hincks, 1874 is a genus of the family Aglaopheniidae Marktanner-Turner- Funding: The research was funded by the Polish etscher, 1890 with currently about 41 accepted nominal species (Table 1) [1]. The majority of National Science Center grant (UMO-2012/04/M/ the Gymnangium species occur in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and Pacific NZ8/00670) to MR. The publication has been Oceans. Only about five species have been documented reliably in Atlantic waters (G. allmani financed by the budget of the statutory activity of the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of (Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1890), G. montagui Billard, 1912, G. sinuosum Fraser, 1925, G. Sciences and partly by the Polish National Science arcuatum (Lamouroux, 1816), and G. speciosum Allman, 1877 [2±8]. A single one (G. monta- grant (UMO-2014/15/B/NZ8/00237). gui) has barely penetrated into the Mediterranean Sea [9]. PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174244 April 19, 2017 1 / 43 Gymnangium and Taxella spp. from the Indian Ocean islands Competing interests: The authors have declared Hincks [10] introduced the name Gymnangium for species previously included in the genus that no competing interests exist. Aglaophenia Lamouroux, 1812 but bearing unprotected gonothecae on the stem. Stechow [11] later selected Halicornaria montagui Billard, 1912 as the type species of the genus. The remain- ing genera of the Aglaopheniidae have gonothecae protected by accessory structures, e.g. Table 1. Morphological characteristics of genera Taxella and Gymnangium (species included in the molecular phylogeny are in bold). Clade on Polysi- Branched Abcauline Hydrotheca Hydrotheca Hydrotheca Referenc tree Figs phonic colony hydrothecal Stechow type Stechow type Stechow type 4 and 5 stem septum "Halicetta" "Haliaria" "Gymnangium" Taxella eximia A yes yes no yes no no Rees & Vervoort (Allman, 1874) 1987 [48], present study Taxella A yes yes no yes no no Rees & Vervoort gracilicaulis 1987 [48], present (JaÈderholm, 1903) study Taxella hornelli A yes yes no yes no no Present study (Thornely, 1904) Gymnangium B no no yes no no yes Present study millardi Ronowicz sp. nov ?Gymnangium B no yes no yes no no Vervoort 1966 expansum [56], present study (JaÈderholm, 1903) Gymnangium B no no yes no no yes Millard 1975 [7], hians (Busk, 1852) present study Gymnangium B no no yes no no yes Allman, 1876 [14] insigne (Allman, 1874) Gymnangium B no no yes no no yes Cornelius 1995 [5] montagui (Billard, 1912) Taxella el®ca no data yes yes no yes no no Present study Ronowicz sp. nov. ?Taxella no data yes yes no (adcauline yes no no Vervoort & explorationis ledge) Watson, 2003 [57] Vervoort & Watson, 2003 Taxella longicornis no data yes yes no yes no no Watson, 2000 [58] (Busk, 1852) Taxella tubulifera no data yes yes no yes no no Vervoort & (Bale, 1914) Watson, 2003 [57] Gymnangium ?no data no no yes no no yes Galea 2013 [6] allmani (Marktanner- Turneretscher, 1890) Gymnangium no data no no no no yes no Millard, 1975 [7] africanum (Millard, 1958) Gymnangium no data no no no no yes no Millard, 1975 [7] arcuatum (Lamouroux, 1816) Gymnangium no data no no yes no no yes Watson, 2005 [59] ascidioides (Bale, 1882) Gymnangium no data no yes yes no no yes? Watson, 1973 [60] aureum (Watson, 1973) (Continued) PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174244 April 19, 2017 2 / 43 Gymnangium and Taxella spp. from the Indian Ocean islands Table 1. (Continued) Clade on Polysi- Branched Abcauline Hydrotheca Hydrotheca Hydrotheca Referenc tree Figs phonic colony hydrothecal Stechow type Stechow type Stechow type 4 and 5 stem septum "Halicetta" "Haliaria" "Gymnangium" Gymnangium no data no no yes no no yes Watson, 2005 [59] australimage Watson, 2005 Gymnangium no data no yes yes no no yes Bale, 1884 [61] baileyi (Bale, 1884) Gymnangium no data no no data no in part (?) no in part (?) Vervoort & birostratum (Bale, Watson, 2003 [57] 1914) Gymnangium bryani no data no no yes no no yes Present study (Nutting, 1906) Gymnangium no data no yes yes no no yes Hodgson, 1950 comes (Briggs, [62] 1938) Gymnangium no data no no no no yes no Millard, 1975 [7] exsertum (Millard, 1962) Gymnangium ferlusi no data no no no no yes no Present study (Billard, 1901) Gymnangium no data no yes yes no no yes Bale, 1884 [61] furcatum (Bale, 1884) ?Gymnangium no data no yes and no no no yes no Briggs, 1915 [63] goniodes (Briggs, (genus unclear = 1915) Aglaophenia?) Gymnangium no data no no no no yes no Vervoort & humile (Bale, 1884) Watson, 2003 [57] Gymnangium no data no no no no yes no Watson, 2005 [59] ilicistomum (Bale, 1882) Gymnangium no data unknown no no no yes no Fraser, 1936 [64]; indivisum (Fraser, Yamada, 1959 1936) [19] Gymnangium no data no no yes no no yes Stechow, 1907 ishikawai (Stechow, [65] 1907) Gymnangium no data no no no no yes no Watson & japonicum Watson Vervoort, 2001 & Vervoort, 2001 [66] Gymnangium no data no yes no no yes no Bale, 1884 [61] longirostre (Kirchenpauer, 1872) Gymnangium no data yes no no yes no Nutting, 1927 [67] magnirostre (Nutting, 1927) Gymnangium no data no yes no no yes no Watson, 2005 [59] prolifer (Bale, 1882) Gymnangium no data no no yes no no yes Schuchert, 2015 roretzii [68] (Marktanner- Turneretscher, 1890) Gymnangium no data no no yes no no yes Calder, 1997 [3] sinosum (Fraser, 1925) (Continued) PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174244 April 19, 2017 3 / 43 Gymnangium