The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Wu et al. (2018): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationWu, R.-W., Y.-T. Liu, S. Wang, X.-J. Lio, D.T. Zanatta et al. 2018. Testing the utility of DNA barcodes and a preliminary phylogenetic framework for Chinese freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from the middle and lower Yangtze River. PLoS One 13(8), e0200956: 1-19. Available electronically.
Cladogram Figures(click the figure number to see the cladogram) Cladogram Figure 2
+-- Margaritifera_dahurica
+--------------------------------+
| +-- Margaritifera_falcata
|
| +-------------------------------- Quadrula_quadrula
| |
| | +-- Amblema_plicata
| +-----------------------------+
| | +-- Obovaria_arkansasensis
| |
--+ | +----------- Pleurobema_sintoxia
| | |
| +--------------------+ +-- Elliptio_complanata
| | | +-----+
| | | | +-- Eurynia_dilatata
| | +--+
| | | +----- Fusconaia_askewi
| | +--+
| | | +-- Fusconaia_cerina
| | +--+
+--+ +-- Fusconaia_burkei
|
| +----- Potomida_littoralis
| +-----+
| | | +-- Lamprotula_caveata
| | +--+
| +-----------------+ +-- Lamprotula_leaii
| | |
| | | +-------- Sinosolenaia_carinata
| | | |
| | +--+ +----- Gonidea_angulata
| | | |
| | +--+----- Sinosolenaia_oleivora
| | |
| | | +-- Parvasolenaia_rivularis
| | +--+
| | +-- Ptychorhynchus_pfisteri
+--+
| +-------------------------- Sinohyriopsis_cumingii
| |
| | +----------------------- Lepidodesma_languilati
| | |
| | | +----------- Aculamprotula_tortuosa
| | | +-----+
| | | | | +-------- Aculamprotula_scripta
| | | | +--+
| | | | | +----- Aculamprotula_coreana
| | | | +--+
+--+ | | | +-- Aculamprotula_fibrosa
| +-----+ +--+
| | | +-- Aculamprotula_tientsinensis
| | |
| | | +-- Unio_crassus
| | | +-----------+
| | | | +-- Unio_pictorum
| | | |
| | +--+ +----- Nodularia_douglasiae
| | | +-----+
| | | | | +-- Schistodesmus_lampreyanus
+--+ | | +--+
| +--+ +-- Schistodesmus_spinosus
| |
| | +-------- Tchangsinaia_piscicula
| +--+
| | +----- Cuneopsis_rufescens
| +--+
| | +-- Cuneopsis_celtiformis
| +--+
| +-- Cuneopsis_szechenyii
|
| +----------- Acuticosta_chinensis
| +--------+
| | | +-------- Lanceolaria_gladiola
| | +--+
| | | +----- Lanceolaria_grayii
| | +--+
| | | +-- Lanceolaria_lanceolata
| | +--+
| | +-- Lanceolaria_triformis
+--+
| +-------- Anemina_arcaeformis
| |
| +-------- Cristaria_plicata
| +--------+
| | | +-- Sinanodonta_woodiana
| | | +--+
| | | | +-- Sinanodonta_elliptica
| | +--+
+--+ | +-- Sinanodonta_lucida
| +--+
| +-- Sinanodonta_angula
|
| +-------------- Anodonta_cygnea
| |
+--+ +----------- Anodonta_anatina
| |
+--+ +-------- Strophitus_undulatus
| |
+--+ +----- Platynaias_compressa
| |
+--+----- Alasmidonta_marginata
|
| +-- Pyganodon_cataracta
+--+
+-- Pyganodon_grandis
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