The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)
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Publication Wu et al. (2020): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationWu, R.-W., X.-J. Liu, S. Ouyang & X.-P. Wu. 2020. Comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genomes of three Lamprotula (Bivalvia: Unionidae) species: insight into the shortcomings of mitochondrial DNA for recently diverged species delimitation. Malacologia 63(1): 51-66. Available electronically.
Cladogram Figures(click the figure number to see the cladogram) Cladogram Figure 3
+----------------------------- Margaritifera_falcata
|
| +----- Quadrula_quadrula
| +--------------------+
| | | +-- Toxolasma_parvum
| | +--+
--+ | +-- Venustaconcha_ellipsiformis
| |
| | +-- Sinohyriopsis_schlegelii
| | +--------------+
| | | +-- Sinohyriopsis_cumingii
| | |
| | +-----+ +-- Sinosolenaia_oleivora
+--+ | | +-----------+
| | | | +-- Sinosolenaia_carinata
| | +--+
| | | +----------- Pronodularia_japanensis
| | +--+
| | | +-------- Lamprotula_leaii
| | +--+
| | | +----- Lamprotula_caveata__1
| | +--+
| | | +-- Lamprotula_cornuumlunae
| | +--+
+--+ +-- Lamprotula_caveata__2
|
| +----- Cristaria_plicata
| +-----+
| | | +-- Sinanodonta_lucida
| | +--+
| +--------+ +-- Anemina_arcaeformis
| | |
| | | +-------- Anodonta_anatina
| | +--+
| | | +----- Pyganodon_grandis
| | +--+
| | | +-- Utterbackia_peninsularis
+--+ +--+
| +-- Utterbackia_imbecillis
|
| +-------- Aculamprotula_tortuosa
| +--------+
| | | +----- Aculamprotula_scripta
| | +--+
| | | +-- Aculamprotula_tientsinensis
+--+ +--+
| +-- Aculamprotula_coreana
|
| +-------------- Unio_pictorum
+--+
| +----------- Pseudocuneopsis_capitata
+--+
| +-------- Nodularia_douglasiae
+--+
| +----- Schistodesmus_lampreyanus
+--+
| +-- Cuneopsis_heudei
+--+
+-- Tchangsinaia_piscicula
Cladogram Figure 4
+----- Gibbosula_rochechouartii
+--------------+
| | +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
| +--+
| +-- Margaritifera_falcata
--+
| +----------------- Lampsilis_cardium
| |
| | +----------- Sinosolenaia_carinata
| | +--+
+--+ | | +-------- Potomida_littoralis
| | +--+
| | | +----- Lamprotula_leaii
| | +--+
+--+ | +-- Lamprotula_caveata
| +--+
| +-- Lamprotula_cornuumlunae
|
| +----------- Unio_pictorum
+--+
| +-------- Aculamprotula_tortuosa
+--+
| +----- Aculamprotula_scripta
+--+
| +-- Aculamprotula_tientsinensis
+--+
+-- Aculamprotula_fibrosa
|
