The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Pfeiffer & Graf (2015): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationPfeiffer, J.M. & D.L. Graf. 2015. Evolution of bilaterally asymmetrical larvae in freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida: Unionidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2): 307-318. Available electronically.
Cladogram Figures(click the figure number to see the cladogram) Cladogram Figure 2
+-------------------------------------- Neotrigonia_margaritacea
|
| +-------- Velesunio_ambiguus
| +--------------------------+
| | | +----- Hyridella_australis
--+ | +--+
| | | +-- Triplodon_corrugatus
| | +--+
| | +-- Castalia_ambigua
| |
+--+ +----- Etheria_elliptica
| +--------------------------+
| | | +-- Lamproscapha_ensiformis
| | +--+
| | +-- Chambardia_wahlbergi
| |
| | +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
| | +--------------------------+
+--+ | +-- Cumberlandia_monodonta
| |
| | +-- Trapezidens_dolichorhynchus
| | +-----------+
| | | +-- Lamellidens_savadiensis
| | |
| | +-----------+ +-- Leoparreysia_olivacea
+--+ | | +--------+
| | | | +-- Leoparreysia_tavoyensis
| | +--+
| | | +-------- Coelatura_aegyptiaca
| | +--+
| | | +----- Indochinella_pugio
| | +--+
| | | +-- Radiatula_chaudhurii
| | +--+
+--+ +-- Scabies_mandarinus
|
| +----- Unio_pictorum
| +-----------------+
| | | +-- Pyganodon_grandis
| | +--+
| | +-- Lasmigona_costata
| |
| | +----------- Quadrula_quadrula
| | +--------+
+--+ | | +-------- Amblema_plicata
| | +--+
| | | +----- Potamilus_alatus
| | +--+
| | | +-- Lampsilis_cardium
| | +--+
| | +-- Truncilla_truncata
+--+
| +-------- Ensidens_telus
| +--------+
| | | +----- Lens_micropterus
| | +--+
| | | +-- Physunio
| | +--+
| | +-- Physunio_modelli
+--+
| +-------- Gonidea_angulata
| +-----+
| | | +----- Potomida_littoralis
| | +--+
| | | +-- Pronodularia_japanensis
+--+ +--+
| +-- Lamprotula_caveata
|
| +----------- Pilsbryoconcha_carinifera
| |
+--+ +-- Pseudodon_vondembuschianus
| +-----+
| | +-- Pseudodon_vagulus
+--+
| +----- Sundadontina_tumida
+--+
| +-- Nyeinchanconcha_nyeinchani
+--+
+-- Bineurus_exilis
|
