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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

Bivalvia | Unionoida | Etherioidea | Etheriidae

genus Mulleria Férussac, 1824: 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 7 cladograms in 5 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 **

-- Mulleria_rivoli **

Graf, 2000 [Publ 2647], fig. 1

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

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

  +----- Etheria        
--+                     
  |  +-- Mulleria_rivoli **
  +--+                  
     +-- Pseudomulleria 

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

-- Mulleria_rivoli **

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

-- Mulleria_rivoli **

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

  +-- Etheria        
--+                  
  +-- Mulleria_rivoli **

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

-- Mulleria_rivoli **