The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Graf & Ó Foighil (2000): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationGraf, D.L. & D. Ó Foighil. 2000. The evolution of brooding characters among the freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) of North America. Journal of Molluscan Studies 66: 157-170. Available electronically.
Cladogram Figures(click the figure number to see the cladogram) Cladogram Figure 2A
+----------------------------------- Neotrigonia_margaritacea
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--+ +-------------------------------- Mutela_rostrata
| |
| | +----------------------------- Hyridella_depressa
+--+ |
| | +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
| | +-----------------------+
+--+ | +-- Cumberlandia_monodonta
| |
| | +-- Unio_pictorum
| | +--------------------+
+--+ | +-- Unio_caffer
| |
| | +----------- Anodonta_cygnea
| | |
| | +--------+ +-- Alasmidonta_marginata
+--+ | | +-----+
| | | | +-- Lasmigona_costata
| | +--+
| | | +----- Strophitus_undulatus
| | +--+
| | | +-- Pyganodon_grandis
| | +--+
+--+ +-- Pyganodon_fragilis
|
| +-------- Quadrula_quadrula
| +--------+
| | | +----- Eurynia_dilatata
| | +--+
| | | +-- Pleurobema_sintoxia
| | +--+
+--+ +-- Fusconaia_flava
|
| +-------------- Amblema_plicata
| |
| | +----------- Ligumia_recta
| | |
+--+ +----------- Truncilla_truncata
| |
| | +-- Ptychobranchus_fasciolaris
| +--------+
+--+ +-- Sagittunio_nasutus
|
| +----- Lampsilis_siliquoidea
| +--+
| | | +-- Epioblasma_triquetra
| | +--+
| | +-- Epioblasma_brevidens
+--+
| +----- Ortmanniana_ligamentina
| |
| +----- Cambarunio_iris
+--+
+----- Leaunio_vanuxemensis
|
| +-- Lampsilis_cardium
+--+
+-- Lampsilis_fasciola
Cladogram Figure 2B
+-------------------------------------------- Neotrigonia_margaritacea
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--+ +----------------------------------------- Mutela_rostrata
| |
| | +-------------------------------------- Hyridella_depressa
+--+ |
| | +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
| | +--------------------------------+
+--+ | +-- Cumberlandia_monodonta
| |
| | +-- Unio_pictorum
| | +-----------------------------+
+--+ | +-- Unio_caffer
| |
| | +----------- Anodonta_cygnea
| | |
| | +-----------------+ +-- Alasmidonta_marginata
+--+ | | +-----+
| | | | +-- Lasmigona_costata
| | +--+
| | | +----- Strophitus_undulatus
| | +--+
| | | +-- Pyganodon_grandis
+--+ +--+
| +-- Pyganodon_fragilis
|
| +-------- Quadrula_quadrula
| +-----------------+
| | | +----- Eurynia_dilatata
| | +--+
| | | +-- Pleurobema_sintoxia
+--+ +--+
| +-- Fusconaia_flava
|
| +----------------------- Amblema_plicata
| |
+--+ +-------------------- Truncilla_truncata
| |
+--+ +----------------- Ligumia_recta
| |
| | +-- Ptychobranchus_fasciolaris
+--+ +-----------+
| | +-- Sagittunio_nasutus
| |
+--+ +----------- Lampsilis_siliquoidea
| |
| | +----- Ortmanniana_ligamentina
+--+ +--+
| | | +-- Lampsilis_cardium
| | +--+
| | +-- Lampsilis_fasciola
+--+
| +-- Epioblasma_brevidens
| +--+
| | +-- Epioblasma_triquetra
+--+
| +-- Cambarunio_iris
+--+
+-- Leaunio_vanuxemensis
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