Despite the influence of sea‐level changes on biogeographic/phylogeographic patterns in freshwater ecosystems being well documented, studies that explicitly link the influence of sea‐level change with speciation are rare. We aim to test the hypothesis that sea‐level changes during the Pliocene and Pleistocene have driven speciation in north‐western Australia's (NWA’s) largest freshwater fish family, Terapontidae, building upon a body of evolutionary literature focussed on the family.

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上新世更新海平面变化推动澳大利亚西北部淡水鱼的物种形成

尽管海平面变化对淡水生态系统中生物地理/地理学模式的影响已有充分文献记载，但很少有将海平面变化的影响与物种形成直接联系起来的研究。我们旨在检验这一假说，其依据是一系列有关该科的进化文献，这是上新世和更新世期间海平面变化驱动了澳大利亚西北部（NWA）最大的淡水鱼类科Terapontidae的物种形成的假说。