The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Graf & Cummings (2006): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationGraf, D.L. & K.S. Cummings. 2006. Palaeoheterodont diversity (Mollusca: Trigonioida + Unionoida): what we know and what we wish we knew about freshwater mussel evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 343-394. Available electronically.
Cladogram Figures(click the figure number to see the cladogram) Cladogram Figure 2
+----------------------------------------- Neotrigonia_margaritacea
|
| +----- Velesunio_ambiguus
| +--------+
| | | +-- Velesunio_angasi
| | +--+
| +--+ +-- Lortiella_rugata
| | |
| | | +----------- Echyridella_menziesii
| | | |
| | +--+ +-- Hyridella_depressa
| | | +-----+
| | | | +-- Hyridella_australis
| | +--+
| | | +----- Castalia
--+ | +--+
| +--------------------+ | +-- Diplodon_chilensis
| | | +--+
| | | +-- Diplodon_gratus
| | |
| | | +----- Etheria_elliptica
| | | +-----+
| | | | | +-- Mulleria_rivoli
| | | | +--+
| | | | +-- Pseudomulleria_dalyi
| | | |
| | +-----+ +----- Monocondylaea_minuana
| | | +--+
| | | | | +-- Anodontites_trigona
| | | | +--+
| | | | +-- Anodontites_guanarensis
+--+ +--+
| | +-- Chambardia_wahlbergi
| | +--+
| | | +-- Aspatharia_rugifera
| +--+
| | +-- Mutela_dubia
| +--+
| +-- Mutela_rostrata
|
| +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
| +--------------------------------+
| | +-- Cumberlandia_monodonta
| |
| | +-- Pilsbryoconcha_exilis
| | +-----------------------------+
+--+ | +-- Pseudodon_vondembuschianus
| |
| | +----------------------------- Coelatura_aegyptiaca
| | |
| | +----------------------------- Lens_contradens
+--+ |
| | +-- Unio_pictorum
| | +--------+
| | | +-- Unio_caffer
| +-----------------+
| | | +-------- Lasmigona_costata
+--+ +--+
| | +----- Alasmidonta_marginata
| +--+
| | +-- Pyganodon_grandis
| +--+
| +-- Strophitus_undulatus
|
| +-------------------------- Gonidea_angulata
| |
| | +-- Quadrula_verrucosa
+--+ +--------------------+
| | +-- Quadrula_quadrula
| |
+--+ +-------------------- Amblema_plicata
| |
| | +----- Eurynia_dilatata
+--+ +-----------+
| | | +-- Fusconaia_flava
| | +--+
| | +-- Pleurobema_sintoxia
+--+
| +-------------- Obliquaria_reflexa
| |
| +-------------- Truncilla_truncata
+--+
+-------------- Ptychobranchus_fasciolaris
|
| +----------- Ligumia_recta
+--+
| +-------- Cambarunio_iris
+--+
| +----- Epioblasma_triquetra
+--+
| +-- Lampsilis_cardium
+--+
+-- Ortmanniana_ligamentina
|
