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Unionidae

Margaritiferidae

Hyriidae

Etheriidae

Mycetopodidae

Iridinidae


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Publication Hauck et al. (2023): cladograms

publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Hauck, L.L., C.L. Atkinson, J.A. Homyack, B.E. Penaluna, C. Mangum et al. 2023. Molecular identity crisis: environmental DNA metabarcoding meets traditional taxonomy— assessing biodiversity and freshwater mussel population (Unionidae) in Alabama. PeerJ 11. e15127 (pp. 1-28). Available electronically.

Cladogram Figures

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Cladogram Figure 9
  +----------------------- Quadrula_quadrula        
  |                                                 
  |                 +----- Reginaia_ebenus          
  |  +--------------+                               
--+  |              |  +-- Obovaria_olivaria        
  |  |              +--+                            
  |  |                 +-- Lampsilis_ornata         
  |  |                                              
  +--+           +-------- Pleurobema_decisum       
     |  +--------+                                  
     |  |        |  +----- Pleurobema_hanleyianum__2
     |  |        +--+                               
     |  |           |  +-- Pleurobema_georgianum    
     +--+           +--+                            
        |              +-- Pleurobema_hanleyianum__1
        |                                           
        |  +-------------- Pleurobema_beadleianum   
        +--+                                        
           |  +----------- Pleurobema_oviforme      
           +--+                                     
              |  +-------- Fusconaia_subrotunda     
              +--+                                  
                 |  +----- Fusconaia_cuneolus       
                 +--+                               
                    |  +-- Fusconaia_cerina         
                    +--+                            
                       +-- Fusconaia_cor            
 
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