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The study of the taxonomy of Taiwanese fishes started as early as 1858. Europeans, Canadians, and Americans were the pioneers in studying the fish fauna of Taiwan. After the Sino-Japanese war (1894–1895), China ceded Taiwan to Japan, and Japanese zoologists started the taxonomic study of Taiwanese fishes. After the end of WWII, Japan ended its colonial rule (1895–1945), and ichthyologists in Taiwan started their own studies on fish classification. Professor Johnson Ta-Fu Chen was the earliest ...

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The "Taiwan Fish Database" (http://fishdb.sinica.edu.tw) is arguably the earliest and most popular biodiversity database in Taiwan. Established around 1990 by the Fish Ecology and Evolution Laboratory of the Institute of Zoology at Academia Sinica, it has a history spanning more than 35 years. The database originally began by collecting and organizing the most recent species names and geographic distribution of fish in Taiwan, and later expanded to include specimen collections, species descripti...

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The curved-back ricefish, Oryzias curvinotus (Nichols & Pope, 1927), is newly recorded in Taiwan, with specimens collected from the Puzi River in western Taiwan and from Lieyu Island, one of the 12 islands of Kinmen. Identification was based on morphological characters and molecular analysis of mitochondrial DNA COI sequences. Phylogenetic analysis in the present study revealed that samples from the Puzi River formed a unique haplotype, differing from other published haplotypes from China. In co...

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The family Ariidae comprises bottom-dwelling fishes inhabiting tropical and subtropical coasts in marine and brackish waters. Historically, ten nominal species have been recorded in Taiwanese waters. However, due to close morphological similarities among species and a lack of detailed investigation, confusion has persisted regarding the actual number of species present in Taiwan. In this study, a total of 337 specimens were newly collected, and 187 museum specimens were thoroughly examined. Base...

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In this study, we examined the external morphology of croaker specimens with distinct golden body coloration collected from Thailand's Bang Pakong River, along with one specimen of the spine bahaba, Bahaba polykladiskos (Bleeker), from the Sibuti River Estuary in northern Sarawak, Borneo. These specimens differed in coloration from previous descriptions of Ba. polykladiskos, including the specimen from Borneo, but shared other morphological characteristics, particularly a longer interocular dist...