DNA barcoding detects resurrected taxon (Sauvage 1880) in Sulawesi, Indonesia: Bolano Sau Lake phylogeny, phenotypic characters and implications for spp. conservation.

: The freshwater ichthyofauna of Wallacea is diverse and understudied. A baseline survey of Bolano Sau Lake in Parigi Moutong District, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia in 2019 found an eleotrid goby (local name payangka) with characters conforming to the genus , long considered monophyletic as but recently found to comprise at least eight species. This study focused on the molecular (DNA barcoding) identification and phenotypic characters of the payangka.