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Taxonomy

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Unionidae

Margaritiferidae

Hyriidae

Etheriidae

Mycetopodidae

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North America

Central America

South America

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East Asia

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Data last updated
Thu 18 Dec 2025

Publication Kim et al. (2021): cladograms

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Complete Citation

Kim, Y.R., H.-K. Choi, K.-S. Cheon & H.J. Lee. 2021. Complete mitochondrial genome of a Korean endemic freshwater mussel Nodularia breviconcha (Bivalvia: Unionidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 6(1): 79-81. Available electronically.

Cladogram Figures

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Cladogram Figure 1
                       +-- Sinohyriopsis_schlegelii   
  +--------------------+                              
  |                    +-- Lepidodesma_languilati     
  |                                                   
--+  +-------------------- Aculamprotula_tientsinensis
  |  |                                                
  |  |           +-------- Acuticosta_chinensis       
  |  |  +--------+                                    
  +--+  |        |  +----- Lanceolaria_gladiola       
     |  |        +--+                                 
     |  |           |  +-- Lanceolaria_grayii         
     |  |           +--+                              
     |  |              +-- Lanceolaria_lanceolata     
     +--+                                             
        |        +-------- Unio_tumidus               
        |  +-----+                                    
        |  |     |  +----- Unio_nanus                 
        |  |     +--+                                 
        |  |        |  +-- Unio_delphinus             
        |  |        +--+                              
        +--+           +-- Unio_pictorum              
           |                                          
           |        +----- Cuneopsis_heudei           
           |  +-----+                                 
           |  |     |  +-- Schistodesmus_xinyuensis   
           |  |     +--+                              
           +--+        +-- Schistodesmus_lampreyanus  
              |                                       
              |  +-------- Nodularia_breviconcha      
              +--+                                    
                 |  +----- Nodularia_nipponensis      
                 +--+                                 
                    |  +-- Nodularia_dualobtusa       
                    +--+                              
                       +-- Nodularia_douglasiae       
 
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