Relações filogenéticas dos tubarões-martelo (Elasmobranchii: Sphyrnidae) com ênfase em morfologia

• Autor(a) principal: Mello, Waldiney Cavalcante de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/16131
• topic: Sphyrnidae; Phylogeny; Morphology; Elasmobranchii; Carcharhiniformes; Sphyrnidae; Filogenia; Morfologia; Elasmobranchii; Carcharhiniformes; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ZOOLOGIA

The laterally expanded head is the main synapomorphy of the family Sphyrnidae, which comprises all the hammerhead sharks. In spite of the existence of some works on this family, the internal anatomy have been neglected as a soured of characters to be used in the taxonomy and phylogeny of this family, especially about the cephalofoil. Additionally, other characters remains poorly studied in Sphyrnidae, such as the complete teeth anatomy, dermal denticles and sensorial system of pores in the cephalofoil. It is advocated here that the study of such sources of features would give new characters to construct a more robust matrix to be used in the phylogeny of this family. The interrelationships within the Sphyrnidae, as well as of this family among the other Carcharhiniformes is still controversial as their taxonomy. The few phylogenetical hypothesis based on morphology were never tested before, besides accepted by many authors. In the other hand, the few hypothesis based on molecular data were tested but are even more controversial. The present study presents a anatomic and taxonomic review of the family Sphyrnidae, constructing a more robust matrix that were tested to verify the interrelationships within the family Sphyrnidae, using, for the first time, 3 related genera: Carcharhinus, Rhizoprionodon and Negaprion. The results show that S. tiburo is the most basal living sphyrnid, and E. blochii and S. tudes comprise one of the most derived clade. The large species with the most expanded cephalofoil comprise a monophyletic clade S. mokarran + (S. lewini + S. zygaena), while the small sized species with a more rounded cephalofoil are a polifiletic group. Rhizoprionodon acutus appeared as monophyletic to Sphyrnidae when included ouside the outgroup. The consensus trees (Strictus, Semi-strictus, Majority-rule and Adams showed the same relashionships. The cranial characters supported many clades, followed by sensorial and dermal denticle features. After the taxonomic review of the family, the phylogeny presented to be consistent, besides still controversial to molecular data.