Publication information
Boyer, S.L., A.A. Howe, N.W. Juergens & M.C. Hove. 2011. A DNA barcoding approach to identifying freshwater mussels (Bivalvia, Unionidae) recovered from naturally-infested fishes. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30(1): 182-194.
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Cladogram Figures
(click the figure number to see the cladogram) fig. 3 fig. 4
Taxonomic Opinions
Cladogram Figure 3
+----- Alasmidonta_marginata
|
+----- Pyganodon_grandis
|
+-----------------------+ +-- Lasmigona_complanata
| +--+
| | +-- Lasmigona_costata
| |
| | +-- Platynaias_compressa
| +--+
| +-- Strophitus_undulatus
|
--+ +-------------------------- Reginaia_ebenus
| |
| | +-- Fusconaia_flava
| | +--+
| | | +-- Pleurobema_sintoxia
| | +--------------+
| | | | +-- Eurynia_dilatata
| | | +--+
+--+ +--+ +-- Elliptio_crassidens
| | |
| | | +----------------- Megalonaias_nervosa
| | +--+
| | | +-------------- Quadrula_quadrula
| | +--+
| | | +----------- Quadrula_verrucosa
| | +--+
| | | +-------- Theliderma_metanevra
+--+ +--+
| | +----- Pustulosa_pustulosa
| +--+
| | +-- Cyclonaias_tuberculata
| +--+
| +-- Pustulosa_nodulata
|
| +----------------- Amblema_plicata
| |
| | +-------------- Toxolasma_parvum
+-----+ |
| | +----------- Obliquaria_reflexa
| | |
+--+ | +-------- Obovaria_olivaria
| | |
| | +-------- Lampsilis_cardium
| | |
+--+ | +-- Epioblasma_triquetra
| +-----+
| | +-- Lampsilis_siliquoidea
| |
| | +-- Ortmanniana_ligamentina
| +-----+
| | +-- Lampsilis_higginsii
+--+
| +-- Ligumia_recta
+-----+
| +-- Lampsilis_teres
|
| +----- Potamilus_fragilis
+--+
| | +-- Potamilus_ohiensis
| +--+
| +-- Potamilus_alatus
|
| +----- Ellipsaria_lineolata
+--+
| +-- Truncilla_truncata
+--+
+-- Truncilla_donaciformis
Cladogram Figure 4
+-------------- Strophitus_undulatus
|
| +----- Lasmigona_complanata
+--------------------+ +-----+
| | | | +-- Lasmigona_costata
| | | +--+
| +--+ +-- Arcidens_confragosus
| |
| | +-------- Utterbackia_imbecillis
| | |
| +--+-------- Alasmidonta_marginata
| |
| | +----- Pyganodon_grandis
| +--+
--+ | +-- Anodontoides_ferussacianus
| +--+
| +-- Platynaias_compressa
|
| +----------- Theliderma_metanevra
| |
| +--------------------+ +-- Quadrula_verrucosa
| | | +-----+
| | | | +-- Quadrula_quadrula
| | +--+
| | | +----- Pustulosa_pustulosa
| | +--+
+--+ | +-- Cyclonaias_tuberculata
| +--+
| +-- Pustulosa_nodulata
|
| +----------------------------- Megalonaias_nervosa
| |
+--+ +-------------------------- Toxolasma_parvum
| |
| | +----------------------- Amblema_plicata
+--+ |
| | +-- Reginaia_ebenus
| | +-----------------+
| | | +-- Obliquaria_reflexa
+--+ |
| | +-------- Pleurobema_sintoxia
| +-----------+
| | | +----- Elliptio_crassidens
| | +--+
| | | +-- Fusconaia_flava
+--+ +--+
| +-- Eurynia_dilatata
|
| +----- Potamilus_fragilis
| +-----------+
| | | +-- Potamilus_ohiensis
| | +--+
| | +-- Potamilus_alatus
| |
+--+ +----- Ellipsaria_lineolata
| +--------+
| | | +-- Truncilla_donaciformis
| | +--+
| | +-- Truncilla_truncata
+--+
| +----------- Lampsilis_cardium
| |
| | +----- Ligumia_recta
| +-----+
+--+ | +-- Obovaria_olivaria
| +--+
| +-- Epioblasma_triquetra
|
| +-------- Lampsilis_teres
+--+
| +----- Lampsilis_siliquoidea
+--+
| +-- Ortmanniana_ligamentina
+--+
+-- Lampsilis_higginsii
|