Landscape evolution drives continental diversification in Neotropical freshwater fishes of the family Erythrinidae (Teleostei, Characiformes)

Aim: Evolutionary diversification and diversity patterns in Neotropical freshwater fishes can, in part, be predicted by the effects of geomorphological settings on landscape evolution. However, studies at a continental scale, focusing on specific taxa that reflect the tight connection between their evolutionary history and orogenic uplifts on the tectonically active Western margin and watershed migration dynamics on the passive Eastern margin of South America remain limited. Here, we investigated biogeographical and chronological patterns of diversification in the geographically widespread teleost family Erythrinidae (Characiformes, Erythrinoidea).
Location: Neotropical Region
Time period: Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic
Taxon: Erythrinidae (Characiformes)
Methods: We used phylogenomic and parametric biogeographic methods. Our dataset based on ultraconserved elements (UCEs) included 29 erythrinoid lineages and 23 related taxa.
Results: The time calibration along with ancestral area estimat..., Representatives of each erythrinid species/lineages were selected to be sequenced for ultraconserved elements. Illumina sequencing libraries were prepared with a slightly modified version of the NEBNext(R) Ultra(TM) DNA Library Prep Kit for Illumina(R). Sequencing was performed across two Illumina HiSeq PE100 bp lanes using v4 chemistry. The pipeline used for processing target-enriched UCE data was conducted on PHYLUCE v1.5.0. Adapter contamination and low-quality bases were trimmed using the Illumiprocessor. We assembled reads and generated consensus contigs for each sample using Velvet v1.5.0. The trimmed alignment was used to generate two subsets, each including all taxa examined: the 75% and 95% complete matrices. We analyzed the 75% and 95% concatenated datasets using maximum likelihood (ML) in RAxML v8.1.3, Bayesian inference (BI) in ExaBayes v1.4, and a coalescent-based analysis in ASTRAL-III v.5.6.2., , # Data from: Landscape evolution drives continental diversification in Neotropical freshwater fishes of the family Erythrinidae (Teleostei, Characiformes)

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0cfxpnwbw](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0cfxpnwbw)

## Description of the data and file structure

Data was collected from museum specimens. Sequences were obtained from captures of ultraconserved elements of 97 taxa using Illumina approaches. Data was processed by Phyluce and analyses ran through RAxML, ExaBayes, Astral, BEAST, BAMM, and BioGeoBEARs.

Two matrices are available in phylip format: the 75% complete matrix and thr 95% complete matrix of ultraconserved elements. Users can use any of these matrices for running phylogenetic analyses of molecular data.

### Files and variables

#### File: mafft-nexus-edge-trimmed-clean-95p.phylip

**Description:** Data matrix 95% complete of ultraconserved elements.

#### File: mafft-nexus-edge-trimmed-clean-75p.phylip

**Description:** Data matrix 75% compl...,