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Publication Chen et al. (2025): cladograms
publication summary | cladograms Complete CitationChen, H., H.-Q. Xiang, Y.-T. Dai, Z.-G. Chen, Y.-M. He et al. 2025. A new genus and two new species of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from Sichuan, China: Overlooked cryptic endemism in the upper Yangtze River Basin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(4): 1459-1470. Available electronically.
Cladogram Figures(click the figure number to see the cladogram) Cladogram Figure 2
+----------------- Sinosolenaia_oleivora
|
--+ +-- Nodularia_nipponensis
| +-----------+
| | +-- Nodularia_douglasiae
+--+
| +----------- Pseudocuneopsis_perflora
| |
+--+ +-------- Pseudocuneopsis_capitata
| |
+--+ +-- Pseudocuneopsis_yangshuoensis
| +--+
| | +-- Pseudocuneopsis_wuana
+--+
| +-- Pseudocuneopsis_yemaoi
+--+
+-- Pseudocuneopsis_sichuanensis
Cladogram Figure 3
+-- Anodontites_trapesialis
+--------------------------------------------+
| +-- Mutela_dubia
|
| +----------------- Echyridella_menziesii
| +--------------------------+
| | | +-------------- Gibbosula_rochechouartii
| | +--+
| | | +----------- Cumberlandia_monodonta
| | +--+
| | | +-------- Pseudunio_marocanus
| | +--+
| | | +----- Margaritifera_falcata
--+ | +--+
| | | +-- Margaritifera_dahurica
| | +--+
| | +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
| |
| | +-- Quadrula_quadrula
| | +--------------------------+
| | | +-- Uniomerus_tetralasmus
| | |
| | +-----------+ +-- Elliptio_complanata
| | | | +-----------------------+
| | | | | +-- Pleurobema_oviforme
| | | +--+
+--+ | | +----------------------- Amblema_plicata
| | | |
| | +--+ +-------------------- Popenaias_popeii
| | | |
| | +--+ +----------------- Toxolasma_parvum
| | | |
| | +--+ +-- Potamilus_leptodon
| | | +-----------+
| | | | +-- Potamilus_alatus
| | +--+
| | | +----------- Leaunio_lienosus
| | | |
| | +--+ +-- Lampsilis_cardium
| | | +-----+
| | | | +-- Lampsilis_ornata
| | +--+
| | | +----- Venustaconcha_ellipsiformis
| | +--+
| | | +-- Lampsilis_powellii
| | +--+
| | +-- Lampsilis_siliquoidea
| |
+--+ +----- Chamberlainia_somsakpanhai
| +--------------+
| | | +-- Sinohyriopsis_cumingii
| | +--+
| | +-- Sinohyriopsis_schlegelii
| |
| | +-- Hyriopsis_bialata
| +-----------------+ +--+
| | | | +-- Rectidens_sumatrensis
| | | +-----------+
| | | | | +-- Lens_contradens
| | | | +--+
| | | | +-- Physunio_superbus
| | | |
| | +--+ +-------- Potomida_littoralis
| | | +-----+
| | | | | +----- Pronodularia_japanensis
| | | | +--+
| | | | | +-- Lamprotula_caveata
| | | | +--+
| | +--+ +-- Lamprotula_leaii
| | |
| | | +-- Pseudodon_mekongi
| | | +--------+
| | | | +-- Pilsbryoconcha_exilis
| | | |
| | +--+ +-- Ptychorhynchus_pfisteri
+--+ | +-----+
| | | +-- Parvasolenaia_rivularis
| +--+
| | +----- Microcondylaea_bonellii
| +--+
| | +-- Sinosolenaia_carinata
| +--+
| +-- Sinosolenaia_oleivora
|
| +----------------------------------- Lepidodesma_languilati
| |
| | +----- Lanceolaria_gladiola
| | +--------------+
| | | | +-- Lanceolaria_lanceolata
| | | +--+
| | | +-- Lanceolaria_grayii
| | +-----------+
| | | | +----------------- Acuticosta_chinensis
| | | | |
| | | | | +----------- Cristaria_plicata
| | | | | +--+
+--+ | +--+ | | +-------- Anemina_harlandi
| | | | +--+
| | | | | +----- Sinanodonta_lucida
| | | | +--+
| | | | | +-- Sinanodonta_tumens
| | +--+ +--+
| | | +-- Sinanodonta_woodiana
| | |
| | | +-- Anodonta_cygnea
| | | +--------+
| | | | +-- Anodonta_anatina
| | +--+
+--+ | +-------- Platynaias_compressa
| +--+
| | +----- Pyganodon_grandis
| +--+
| | +-- Utterbackia_imbecillis
| +--+
| +-- Utterbackia_peninsularis
|
| +-------- Scriptolamprotula_tortuosa
| |
| +--------------------+ +-- Scriptolamprotula_coreana
| | | +--+
| | | | +-- Scriptolamprotula_tientsinensis
| | +--+
| | | +-- Scriptolamprotula_polysticta
| | +--+
| | +-- Scriptolamprotula_scripta
| |
+--+ +-------- Unio_tumidus
| +-----------------+
| | | +----- Unio_nanus
| | +--+
| | | +-- Unio_delphinus
| | +--+
| | +-- Unio_pictorum
| |
| | +----------- Pseudocuneopsis_capitata
+--+ |
| +-----------+ +-------- Pseudocuneopsis_perflora
| | | |
| | +--+ +-- Pseudocuneopsis_sichuanensis
| | | +--+
| | | | +-- Pseudocuneopsis_yemaoi
| | +--+
| | | +-- Pseudocuneopsis_wuana
+--+ +--+
| +-- Pseudocuneopsis_yangshuoensis
|
| +----- Nodularia_breviconcha
| +--------------+
| | | +-- Nodularia_douglasiae
| | +--+
| | +-- Nodularia_nipponensis
+--+
| +----- Tongchuania_mingiana
| +-----------+
| | | +-- Schistodesmus_xinyuensis
| | +--+
+--+ +-- Schistodesmus_lampreyanus
|
| +-------------- Tchangsinaia_piscicula
| |
+--+ +----------- Cuneopsis_rufescens
| |
+--+ +-- Cuneopsis_celtiformis
| +-----+
| | +-- Cuneopsis_kiangsiensis
+--+
| +----- Cuneopsis_szechenyii
+--+
| +-- Cuneopsis_heudei
+--+
+-- Cuneopsis_demangei
|
