Hou, K., X. Liu, L. Zhang, G. Li & R. Wu. 2025. Revisiting the genus Nodularia (Bivalvia, Unionidae): Mitochondrial phylogenomics and the description of a new species. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(1): 35-44. Available electronically.
(click the figure number to see the cladogram)
+----- Nodularia_dorri
+-----------+
| | +-- Nodularia_hanensis
| +--+
| +-- Nodularia_micheloti
--+
| +-------------- Nodularia_guiensis
| |
| | +-- Nodularia_douglasiae
+--+ +--------+
| | +-- Nodularia_dualobtusa
| |
+--+ +-- Nodularia_nipponensis
| +-----+
| | +-- Nodularia_nuxpersicae
+--+
| +----- Nodularia_huana
+--+
| +-- Nodularia_breviconcha
+--+
+-- Nodularia_fusiformans
+-- Lepidodesma_aligera
+-----------------------------+
| +-- Lepidodesma_languilati
|
| +----------------------------- Middendorffinaia_mongolica
| |
--+ | +-------- Pseudocuneopsis_capitata
| | |
| | +-----------------+ +-- Pseudocuneopsis_sichuanensis
| | | | +--+
| | | | | +-- Pseudocuneopsis_yemaoi
+--+ | +--+
| | | +-- Pseudocuneopsis_wuana
| | +--+
| | +-- Pseudocuneopsis_yangshuoensis
| |
| | +-- Schistodesmus_xinyuensis
| | +--------------+
+--+ | +-- Schistodesmus_spinosus
| +-----+
| | | +-------------- Tchangsinaia_piscicula
| | | |
| | +--+ +----------- Cuneopsis_rufescens
| | | |
| | +--+ +-- Cuneopsis_celtiformis
| | | +-----+
| | | | +-- Cuneopsis_kiangsiensis
| | +--+
+--+ | +----- Cuneopsis_szechenyii
| +--+
| | +-- Cuneopsis_demangei
| +--+
| +-- Cuneopsis_heudei
|
| +----- Nodularia_dorri
| +--------------+
| | | +-- Nodularia_hanensis
| | +--+
+--+ +-- Nodularia_micheloti
|
| +----------------- Nodularia_breviconcha
| |
+--+ +-------------- Nodularia_huana
| |
+--+ +----------- Nodularia_fusiformans
| |
+--+ +-------- Nodularia_guiensis
| |
+--+ +-- Nodularia_douglasiae
| +--+
| | +-- Nodularia_dualobtusa
+--+
| +-- Nodularia_nipponensis
+--+
+-- Nodularia_nuxpersicae