title: Nomenclatural changes should not be based on equivocally supported phylogenies: Reply to Yang et al. 2015.
abstract: Phylogenies produced by Yang et al. 2015 provide reasonably well-supported hypotheses of relationships among 11 proposed tribes of cyprinine fishes and present an interesting hypothesis about the origin of a number of polyploid cyprinine lineages. However, support for relationships within some of the tribes is equivocal. Herein we address the treatment of African diploid and tetraploid cyprinine genera within tribe Smiliogastrini. More specifically, we reject the revalidation of Enteromius based on the evidence presented and discuss the ramifications of the proposed revalidation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, 400 Boggs Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118, United States; Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute, Belle Chasse, LA 70037, United States. Electronic address: rschmidt@tulane.edu.
authors.forename: Ray C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, 400 Boggs Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118, United States; Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute, Belle Chasse, LA 70037, United States.
authors.forename: Henry L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Bart
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003531:Cypriniformes / Q000145:classification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D011123:Polyploidy