Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40306022) and Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 04001300).
Fishes of the family Lutjanidae are commercially important in South China Sea. However,the phylogeny of Lutjanids is still unclear and there are many controversies over it. Herein, studies about the phylogeny of Lutja...