Publication Chen et al. (2025): cladograms

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Complete Citation

Chen, Z.-G., Y.-T. Dai, H. Chen, H.-F. Hu, J. Jiang et al. 2025. Gibbosula sinensis, a new species on the verge of extinction of the world’s most threatened freshwater mussel family Margaritiferidae Henderson, 1929 from China (Bivalvia, Palaeoheterodonta, Unionida). Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(4): 1613-1620. Available electronically.

Cladogram Figures

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Cladogram Figure 1
                                      +-- Neotrigonia_lamarckii      
  +-----------------------------------+                              
  |                                   +-- Neotrigonia_margaritacea   
  |                                                                  
  |                                   +-- Hyridella_australis        
--+  +--------------------------------+                              
  |  |                                +-- Triplodon_corrugatus       
  |  |                                                               
  |  |                                +-- Aspatharia_pfeifferiana    
  |  |                          +-----+                              
  +--+                          |     +-- Chambardia_wahlbergi       
     |  +-----------------------+                                    
     |  |                       |  +----- Etheria_elliptica          
     |  |                       +--+                                 
     |  |                          |  +-- Tamsiella_schroeteriana    
     |  |                          +--+                              
     +--+                             +-- Lamproscapha_ensiformis    
        |                                                            
        |                             +-- Lampsilis_cardium          
        |  +--------------------------+                              
        |  |                          +-- Potomida_littoralis        
        |  |                                                         
        +--+  +-------------------------- Pseudunio_marocanus        
           |  |                                                      
           |  |                       +-- Pseudunio_auricularius__1  
           |  |                       |                              
           +--+  +--------------------+-- Pseudunio_auricularius__2  
              |  |                    |                              
              |  |                    +-- Pseudunio_homsensis        
              |  |                                                   
              |  |                    +-- Gibbosula_laosensis        
              +--+                 +--+                              
                 |                 |  +-- Gibbosula_sinensis         
                 |  +--------------+                                 
                 |  |              |  +-- Gibbosula_crassa           
                 |  |              +--+                              
                 +--+                 +-- Gibbosula_rochechouartii   
                    |                                                
                    |  +----------------- Cumberlandia_monodonta     
                    |  |                                             
                    +--+              +-- Margaritifera_dahurica     
                       |  +-----------+                              
                       |  |           +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
                       +--+                                          
                          |  +----------- Margaritifera_falcata      
                          +--+                                       
                             |  +-------- Margaritifera_middendorffi 
                             +--+                                    
                                |  +----- Margaritifera_laevis       
                                +--+                                 
                                   |  +-- Margaritifera_hembeli      
                                   +--+                              
                                      +-- Margaritifera_marrianae