The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Hoeh et al. (2002): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationHoeh, W.R., A.E. Bogan, K.S. Cummings & S.I. Guttman. 2002. Evolutionary relationships among the higher taxa of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida): inferences on phylogeny and character evolution from analyses of DNA sequence data. Malacological Review 31/32(2): 123-141. Available electronically.
Cladogram Figures(click the figure number to see the cladogram) Cladogram Figure 2
+----------------------------------- Neotrigonia_margaritacea
|
| +-- Castalia_stevensi
| +-----+
| | +-- Diplodon_gratus
| +-----------------------+
--+ | | +----- Echyridella_menziesii
| | +--+
| | | +-- Velesunio_angasi
| | +--+
| | +-- Lortiella
| |
+--+ +-- Mutela_dubia
| +-----+
| | +-- Mutela_rostrata
| +--------------------+
| | | +----- Monocondylaea_minuana
| | +--+
| | | +-- Anodontites_guanarensis
| | +--+
+--+ +-- Anodontites_trigona
|
| +-------------------------- Coelatura_aegyptiaca
| |
| | +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
| | +--------------------+
+--+ | +-- Cumberlandia_monodonta
| |
| | +-------------- Gonidea_angulata
| | +-----+
+--+ | | +----------- Unio_pictorum
| | +--+
| | | +-------- Unio_tumidus
| | +--+
| | | +----- Anodonta_cygnea
| | +--+
+--+ | +-- Pyganodon_grandis
| +--+
| +-- Strophitus_undulatus
|
| +-- Glebula_rotundata
| +--------------+
| | +-- Cyrtonaias_tampicoensis
| |
+--+ +-------------- Toxolasma_lividum
| |
| | +----- Potamilus_alatus
| +--------+
+--+ | +-- Ligumia_recta
| +--+
| +-- Ortmanniana_ligamentina
|
| +----------- Amblema_plicata
+--+
| +-------- Quadrula_quadrula
+--+
| +----- Eurynia_dilatata
+--+
| +-- Pleurobema_clava
+--+
+-- Fusconaia_flava
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