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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Etheriidae

genus Etheria Lamarck, 1807: cladomics
     1 Recent valid species (1 total species)

Cladomics pages are experimental — even more so than the rest of this site!

The purpose of the cladomics pages for each genus and family-group level taxon is to provide statistics and references indicating the extent to which published phylogenetic work supports the classification used here.

The Cladomics Summary provides an overview of the number of studies that have included terminal species representing this taxon as well as an indication of how frequently it has been recovered as monophyletic.

Following the summary, the available published clades representing the taxon are listed.

For more information, visit the Cladomics FARQ (frequently asked rhetorical questions) page. Abbreviations for the various statistics are explained on the FARQ!

Cladomics Summary

number of species = 1 (1 total)
analyzed in 37 cladograms in 24 publications
maximum number of terminals in an analysis = 1 (mean = 1, median = 1)

Bogan & Hoeh, 2000 [Publ 2650], fig. 1

** Top Monophyly Cladogram ** ** Top Sister-Group Cladogram **

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Bolotov et al., 2016 [Publ 3743], fig. 4

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Wu et al., 2020 [Publ 4121], fig. 2

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Smith, 2021 [Publ 4331], fig. 1

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Lopes-Lima et al., 2018 [Publ 3829], fig. 1

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Lemer et al., 2019 [Publ 4093], fig. 1

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Combosch et al., 2017 [Publ 3806], fig. 2

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Graf, 2000 [Publ 2647], fig. 1

  +-- Etheria ** 
--+           
  +-- Mulleria

Huang et al., 2018 [Publ 3828], fig. 3_5

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Huang et al., 2019 [Publ 3843], fig. 2

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Pfeiffer et al., 2019 [Publ 3937], fig. 6

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Wu et al., 2021 [Publ 4366], fig. 6

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Konopleva et al., 2017 [Publ 3807], fig. 6

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Graf & Cummings, 2006 [Publ 1968], fig. 2

  +----- Etheria_elliptica **
--+                       
  |  +-- Mulleria         
  +--+                    
     +-- Pseudomulleria   

Huang et al., 2019 [Publ 3843], fig. S4

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Bolotov et al., 2017 [Publ 3761], fig. S2

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Sano et al., 2020 [Publ 4138], fig. 2

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Lopes-Lima et al., 2018 [Publ 3829], fig. 3

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Lopes-Lima et al., 2017 [Publ 3745], fig. 1-2

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Combosch et al., 2017 [Publ 3806], fig. 1

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Graf et al., 2015 [Publ 3619], fig. 1

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Elderkin et al., 2016 [Publ 3693], fig. 2

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Bolotov et al., 2017 [Publ 3761], fig. S1

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Chen et al., 2025 [Publ 4455], fig. 1

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Pfeiffer & Graf, 2015 [Publ 3620], fig. 2

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Bolotov et al., 2016 [Publ 3743], fig. 2

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Wu et al., 2021 [Publ 4366], fig. 2_I

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Sano et al., 2020 [Publ 4138], fig. 4

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Walker et al., 2006 [Publ 2666], fig. 6

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Hoeh et al., 2009 [Publ 2716], fig. 4

  +-- Etheria_elliptica **
--+                    
  +-- Mulleria         

Pfeiffer et al., 2019 [Publ 3937], fig. 4-5

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Lopes-Lima et al., 2020 [Publ 4080], fig. 2-4

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Hoeh et al., 2009 [Publ 2716], fig. 5

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Sano et al., 2020 [Publ 4138], fig. 3

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Hoeh et al., 2009 [Publ 2716], fig. 3

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Huang et al., 2019 [Publ 3843], fig. S3

-- Etheria_elliptica **

Wu et al., 2020 [Publ 4121], fig. S1

-- Etheria_elliptica **