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Publication Wu et al. (2025): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationWu, R., L. Liu, L. Zhang, A.E Bogan, D. Jin et al. 2025. Diversity, phylogeny and distribution of the subtribe Cristariina (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Unioninae) from China, with description of a new genus and species. Invertebrate Systematics 39(3): 1-16. Available electronically.
Cladogram Figures(click the figure number to see the cladogram) Cladogram Figure 2
+-- Cuneopsis_celtiformis
+--------------------------------+
| +-- Cuneopsis_heudei
|
| +-- Cristaria_clessini
| +-----+
| | +-- Cristaria_bellua
| |
| +-----------------------+ +-- Cristaria_plicata
| | | +--+
--+ | | | +-- Cristaria_truncata
| | +--+
| | | +-- Cristaria_radiata
| | +--+
| | +-- Cristaria_beirensis
| |
| | +----- Pletholophus_guangzhouensis
| | +--------------------+
| | | | +-- Pletholophus_tenuis
| | | +--+
+--+ +--+ +-- Pletholophus_reinianus
| | |
| | | +----------------------- Pletholophus_honglinhensis
| | +--+
| | | +-------------------- Anemina_arcaeformis
| | +--+
| | | +----------------- Amuranodonta_kijaensis
| | +--+
| | | +-------------- Buldowskia_suifunica
| | +--+
| | | +----------- Buldowskia_shadini
| | +--+
| | | +-------- Buldowskia_flavotincta
+--+ +--+
| | +----- Buldowskia_kamiyai
| +--+
| | +-- Buldowskia_iwakawai
| +--+
| +-- Buldowskia
|
| +-------- Beringiana_gosannensis
| +--------------+
| | | +----- Beringiana_fukuharai
| | +--+
| | | +-- Beringiana_beringiana
| | +--+
+-----+ +-- Beringiana_japonica
|
| +-------------------- Acudonta_baitiaoensis
| |
| | +-- Sinanodonta_lucida
+--+ +--------------+
| | +-- Sinanodonta_angula
| |
+--+ +----- Sinanodonta_schrenkii
| +--------+
| | | +-- Sinanodonta_tumens
| | +--+
+--+ +-- Sinanodonta_calipygos
|
| +----------- Sinanodonta_woodiana
+--+
| +-------- Sinanodonta_jourdyi
+--+
| +----- Sinanodonta_elliptica
+--+
| +-- Sinanodonta_lauta
+--+
+-- Sinanodonta_pacifica
Cladogram Figure 6
+-- Unio_crassus
+-----------------------+
| +-- Unio_delphinus
|
| +----- Cristaria_beirensis
--+ +-----------------+
| | | +-- Cristaria_plicata
| | +--+
| | +-- Cristaria_truncata
| |
+--+ +----- Amuranodonta_kijaensis
| +--------------+
| | | +-- Anemina_arcaeformis
| | +--+
| | +-- Buldowskia_shadini
+--+
| +-- Beringiana_fukuharai
| +--------------+
| | +-- Pletholophus_guangzhouensis
+--+
| +-------------- Acudonta_baitiaoensis
| |
+--+ +----------- Sinanodonta_lucida
| |
+--+ +-- Sinanodonta_schrenkii
| +-----+
| | +-- Sinanodonta_tumens
+--+
| +----- Sinanodonta_woodiana
+--+
| +-- Sinanodonta_lauta
+--+
+-- Sinanodonta_pacifica
|
