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

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Publication Hou et al. (2025): cladograms
     publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Hou, K., X. Wang, F. Nan & R. Wu. 2025. Underestimated diversity: A new species of the genus Cuneopsis (Bivalvia, Unionidae, Unioninae) from Henan, China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(1): 341-351. Available electronically.

Cladogram Figures

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Cladogram Figure 3
  +----------------------- Lepidodesma_languilati    
  |                                                  
--+  +-------------------- Tchangsinaia_piscicula    
  |  |                                               
  +--+  +----------------- Pseudocuneopsis_capitata  
     |  |                                            
     +--+  +-------------- Middendorffinaia_mongolica
        |  |                                         
        +--+  +----------- Cuneopsis_rufescens       
           |  |                                      
           |  |     +----- Cuneopsis_celtiformis     
           +--+  +--+                                
              |  |  |  +-- Cuneopsis_celtiosimilis   
              |  |  +--+                             
              +--+     +-- Cuneopsis_kiangsiensis    
                 |                                   
                 |  +----- Cuneopsis_szechenyii      
                 |  |                                
                 +--+  +-- Cuneopsis_heudei          
                    |  |                             
                    +--+-- Cuneopsis_demangei__1     
                       |                             
                       +-- Cuneopsis_demangei__2     
Cladogram Figure 4
                             +-- Lepidodesma_aligera          
  +--------------------------+                                
  |                          +-- Lepidodesma_languilati       
  |                                                           
  |  +-------------------------- Middendorffinaia_mongolica   
  |  |                                                        
--+  |                 +-------- Pseudocuneopsis_capitata     
  |  |                 |                                      
  |  |  +--------------+     +-- Pseudocuneopsis_sichuanensis 
  |  |  |              |  +--+                                
  |  |  |              |  |  +-- Pseudocuneopsis_yemaoi       
  +--+  |              +--+                                   
     |  |                 |  +-- Pseudocuneopsis_wuana        
     |  |                 +--+                                
     |  |                    +-- Pseudocuneopsis_yangshuoensis
     |  |                                                     
     |  |                 +----- Nodularia_dorri              
     |  |     +-----------+                                   
     +--+     |           |  +-- Nodularia_hanensis           
        |     |           +--+                                
        |  +--+              +-- Nodularia_micheloti          
        |  |  |                                               
        |  |  |  +-------------- Nodularia_breviconcha        
        |  |  |  |                                            
        |  |  +--+  +----------- Nodularia_huana              
        |  |     |  |                                         
        |  |     +--+  +-------- Nodularia_fusiformans        
        |  |        |  |                                      
        |  |        +--+     +-- Nodularia_douglasiae         
        +--+           |  +--+                                
           |           |  |  +-- Nodularia_dualobtusa         
           |           +--+                                   
           |              |  +-- Nodularia_nipponensis        
           |              +--+                                
           |                 +-- Nodularia_nuxpersicae        
           |                                                  
           |                 +-- Schistodesmus_lampreyanus    
           |  +--------------+                                
           |  |              +-- Schistodesmus_spinosus       
           +--+                                               
              |  +-------------- Tchangsinaia_piscicula       
              |  |                                            
              +--+  +----------- Cuneopsis_rufescens          
                 |  |                                         
                 |  |     +----- Cuneopsis_szechenyii         
                 +--+  +--+                                   
                    |  |  |  +-- Cuneopsis_demangei           
                    |  |  +--+                                
                    +--+     +-- Cuneopsis_heudei             
                       |                                      
                       |  +----- Cuneopsis_celtiformis        
                       +--+                                   
                          |  +-- Cuneopsis_kiangsiensis       
                          +--+                                
                             +-- Cuneopsis_celtiosimilis      
 
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