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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Chen et al. (2025): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationChen, 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(click the figure number to see the cladogram) 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
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