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This page documents data for Wu et al. (2020), such as genera and species attributed to that publication (including known misspellings, misidentifications, and other unavailable names) as well as taxonomic opinions, if available. Taxonomic opinions refer to uses of genera and species as valid and invalid in that work.

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Publication information

Wu, 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.

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Cladogram Figures

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fig. 4

Taxonomic Opinions

Aculamprotula coreana (Martens, 1886)

Aculamprotula fibrosa

Aculamprotula scripta (Heude, 1875)

Aculamprotula tientsinensis (Crosse & Debeaux, 1863)

Aculamprotula tortuosa (Lea, 1865)

Anemina arcaeformis (Heude, 1877)

Anodonta anatina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cristaria plicata (Leach, 1814)

Cuneopsis capitatus (Heude, 1874)

Cuneopsis heudei (Heude, 1874)

Cuneopsis pisciculus (Heude, 1874)

Gibbosula rochechouartii

Lamprotula caveata (Heude, 1877)

Lamprotula cornuumlunae (Heude, 1883)

Lamprotula gottschei

Lamprotula leaii (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

Lamprotula scripta

Lampsilis cardium

Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)

Margaritifera margaritifera

Nodularia douglasiae (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

Potomida littoralis

Pronodularia japanensis (Lea, 1859)

Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820)

Schistodesmus lampreyanus (Baird & Adams, 1867)

Sinanodonta lucida (Heude, 1877)

Sinohyriopsis cumingii (Lea, 1852)

Sinohyriopsis schlegelii (Martens, 1861)

Solenaia carinatus (Heude, 1877)

Solenaia oleivora (Heude, 1877)

Toxolasma parvum (Barnes, 1823)

Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Utterbackia imbecillis (Say, 1829)

Utterbackia peninsularis Bogan & Hoeh, 1995

Venustaconcha ellipsiformis (Conrad, 1836)

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

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