Research Interests

Classification and phylogeny of fish in this field of my research concentration. Pomfret fishes (Genus Pampus) are commercially important in the Indo-Pacific region.
Systematics of this genus is still contentious because of morphological similarities between. Phylogenetic relationship among Pampus species has never been really tested due to lack of informative morphological characters, incomplete taxon sampling, and that only mitochondrial data have been collected.
Here, we want to collected abundant specimens. Thousands of nuclear loci using target-gene enrichment were used to find a truly phylogeny relationship.