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

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Publication Elderkin et al. (2016): cladograms
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Complete Citation

Elderkin, C.L., C. Clewing, O. Wembo Ndeo & C. Albrecht. 2016. Molecular phylogeny and DNA barcoding confirm cryptic species in the African freshwater oyster Etheria elliptica Lamarck, 1807 (Bivalvia: Etheriidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118(2): 369-381. Available electronically.

Cladogram Figures

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• Fig. 2

Cladogram Figure 2

  +-- Etheria_elliptica      
  |                          
--+-- Aspatharia_pfeifferiana
  |                          
  +-- Velesunio_ambiguus