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Publication Hoeh et al. (2002): cladograms

publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Hoeh, W.R., A.E. Bogan, K.S. Cummings & S.I. Guttman. 2002. Evolutionary relationships among the higher taxa of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida): inferences on phylogeny and character evolution from analyses of DNA sequence data. Malacological Review 31/32(2): 123-141. Available electronically.

Cladogram Figures

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Cladogram Figure 2
  +----------------------------------- Neotrigonia_margaritacea   
  |                                                               
  |                                +-- Castalia_stevensi          
  |                          +-----+                              
  |                          |     +-- Diplodon_gratus            
  |  +-----------------------+                                    
--+  |                       |  +----- Echyridella_menziesii      
  |  |                       +--+                                 
  |  |                          |  +-- Velesunio_angasi           
  |  |                          +--+                              
  |  |                             +-- Lortiella                  
  |  |                                                            
  +--+                             +-- Mutela_dubia               
     |                       +-----+                              
     |                       |     +-- Mutela_rostrata            
     |  +--------------------+                                    
     |  |                    |  +----- Monocondylaea_minuana      
     |  |                    +--+                                 
     |  |                       |  +-- Anodontites_guanarensis    
     |  |                       +--+                              
     +--+                          +-- Anodontites_trigona        
        |                                                         
        |  +-------------------------- Coelatura_aegyptiaca       
        |  |                                                      
        |  |                       +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
        |  |  +--------------------+                              
        +--+  |                    +-- Cumberlandia_monodonta     
           |  |                                                   
           |  |        +-------------- Gonidea_angulata           
           |  |  +-----+                                          
           +--+  |     |  +----------- Unio_pictorum              
              |  |     +--+                                       
              |  |        |  +-------- Unio_tumidus               
              |  |        +--+                                    
              |  |           |  +----- Anodonta_cygnea            
              |  |           +--+                                 
              +--+              |  +-- Pyganodon_grandis          
                 |              +--+                              
                 |                 +-- Strophitus_undulatus       
                 |                                                
                 |                 +-- Glebula_rotundata          
                 |  +--------------+                              
                 |  |              +-- Cyrtonaias_berlandierii    
                 |  |                                             
                 +--+  +-------------- Toxolasma_lividum          
                    |  |                                          
                    |  |        +----- Potamilus_alatus           
                    |  +--------+                                 
                    +--+        |  +-- Ligumia_recta              
                       |        +--+                              
                       |           +-- Ortmanniana_ligamentina    
                       |                                          
                       |  +----------- Amblema_plicata            
                       +--+                                       
                          |  +-------- Quadrula_quadrula          
                          +--+                                    
                             |  +----- Eurynia_dilatata           
                             +--+                                 
                                |  +-- Pleurobema_clava           
                                +--+                              
                                   +-- Fusconaia_flava            
 
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