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Publication Hou et al. (2025): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationHou, K., X. Wang, J. Jia, X. Liu, X. Wu et al. 2025. Cryptic species, mitochondrial phylogenomics and historical biogeography in the endemic genus Schistodesmus Schistodesmus (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from China. Invertebrate Systematics 39: 1-17, corrigendum. Available electronically.
Cladogram Figures(click the figure number to see the cladogram) Cladogram Figure 4
+-- Cuneopsis_heudei
+-----------+
| +-- Cuneopsis_celtiformis
--+
| +----------- Schistodesmus_tongpenensis
+--+
| +-------- Schistodesmus_spinosus
+--+
| +----- Schistodesmus_xinyuensis
+--+
| +-- Schistodesmus_lampreyanus
+--+
+-- Schistodesmus_luqiaoensis
Cladogram Figure 5
+-- Lampsilis_cardium
+--------------------------------+
| +-- Quadrula_quadrula
|
| +-------------- Cristaria_plicata
| +-----+
| | | +----------- Anemina_arcaeformis
| | +--+
| | | +-------- Beringiana_fukuharai
| | +--+
| | | +----- Sinanodonta_lucida
| | +--+
| +-----------+ | +-- Sinanodonta_woodiana
| | | +--+
| | | +-- Sinanodonta_tumens
| | |
--+ | | +----------------- Anodonta_nuttalliana
| | | |
| | | | +-------- Pseudanodonta_complanata
| | | | +-----+
| | +--+ | | +----- Anodonta_anatina
| | | | +--+
| | | | | +-- Anodonta_cygnea
| | | | +--+
| | +--+ +-- Anodonta_exulcerata
| | |
| | | +----- Pyganodon_grandis
| | | +-----+
| | | | | +-- Utterbackia_imbecillis
| | | | +--+
| | +--+ +-- Utterbackia_peninsularis
+--+ |
| | +-------- Pterosyna_complanata
| +--+
| | +----- Prolasmidonta_heterodon
| +--+
| | +-- Platynaias_compressa
| +--+
| +-- Alasmidonta_varicosa
|
| +-------- Aculamprotula_tortuosa
| |
| +--------------------+ +-- Aculamprotula_coreana
| | | +--+
| | | | +-- Aculamprotula_tientsinensis
| | +--+
| | | +-- Aculamprotula_polysticta
| | +--+
| | +-- Aculamprotula_scripta
| |
| | +-------------- Unio_tumidus
+--+ +-----------+
| | | +----------- Unio_nanus
| | +--+
| | | +-------- Unio_delphinus
| | +--+
| | | +----- Unio_pictorum
| | +--+
| | | +-- Unio_mancus
| | +--+
| | +-- Unio_elongatulus
+--+
| +-- Pseudocuneopsis_sichuanensis
| +--------------------+
| | +-- Pseudocuneopsis_capitata
| |
| | +----- Nodularia_dorri
| | +-----------+
| | | | +-- Nodularia_micheloti
| | | +--+
| | +--+ +-- Nodularia_hanensis
| | | |
+--+ | | +-------------- Nodularia_breviconcha
| | | |
| | +--+ +----------- Nodularia_huana
| | | |
| | +--+ +-------- Nodularia_fusiformans
| | | |
| | +--+ +-- Nodularia_nipponensis
| | | +--+
| | | | +-- Nodularia_nuxpersicae
+--+ +--+
| | +-- Nodularia_douglasiae
| +--+
| +-- Nodularia_dualobtusa
|
| +----------- Schistodesmus_spinosus
| +--+
| | | +-------- Schistodesmus_tongpenensis
| | +--+
| | | +----- Schistodesmus_xinyuensis
| | +--+
+-----+ | +-- Schistodesmus_lampreyanus
| +--+
| +-- Schistodesmus_luqiaoensis
|
| +----------- Tchangsinaia_piscicula
+--+
| +-------- Cuneopsis_rufescens
+--+
| +----- Cuneopsis_celtiformis
+--+
| +-- Cuneopsis_demangei
+--+
+-- Cuneopsis_heudei
|
