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

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This page documents data for Araujo et al. (2016), 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

Araujo, R., S. Schneider, K.J. Roe, D. Erpenbeck & A. Machordom. 2016. The origin and phylogeny of Margaritiferidae (Bivalvia, Unionoida): a synthesis of molecular and fossil data. Zoologica Scripta 46(3): 289-307.

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Cladogram Figures

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fig. 1_2b
fig. 2a

Taxonomic Opinions

Dianoconcha alata Guo, 1988

Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler, 1793)

Margaritifera dahurica (Middendorff, 1850)

Margaritifera falcata (Gould, 1850)

Margaritifera flabellata (Goldfuss, 1837)

Margaritifera guangyuanensis Ma, 1984

Margaritifera hantkeni Modell, 1950

Margaritifera hembeli (Conrad, 1838)

Margaritifera homsensis (Lea, 1864)

Margaritifera laevis (Haas, 1910)

Margaritifera laosensis (Lea, 1863)

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Margaritifera margartiferiformis (Liu & Luo in Liu, 1981)

Margaritifera marocana (Pallary, 1918)

Margaritifera marrianae R.I. Johnson, 1983

Margaritifera middendorffi (Rosén, 1926)
+ Margaritifera laevis Huff et al., 2004
+ Margaritifera togakushiensis Kondo & Kobayashi, 2005

Margaritifera monodonta (Say, 1829)

Margaritifera plana (Ma, 1996)

Margaritifera tanggulaensis (Wen in Zhang, Lu & Wen, 1979)

Margaritifera valdensis (Mantell, 1844)

Mengyinaia mengyinensis (Grabau, 1923)

Neotrigonia margaritacea

Potomida littoralis

Cladogram Figure 1_2b
  +----------------------- Neotrigonia_margaritacea   
  |                                                   
--+  +-------------------- Potomida_littoralis        
  |  |                                                
  +--+  +----------------- Gibbosula_laosensis        
     |  |                                             
     |  |           +----- Cumberlandia_monodonta     
     +--+  +--------+                                 
        |  |        |  +-- Pseudunio_marocanus        
        |  |        +--+                              
        |  |           +-- Pseudunio_auricularius     
        +--+                                          
           |           +-- Margaritifera_dahurica     
           |  +--------+                              
           |  |        +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
           +--+                                       
              |  +-------- Margaritifera_falcata      
              |  |                                    
              +--+     +-- Margaritifera_middendorffi 
                 |  +--+                              
                 |  |  +-- Margaritifera_laevis       
                 +--+                                 
                    |  +-- Margaritifera_marrianae    
                    +--+                              
                       +-- Margaritifera_hembeli      
Cladogram Figure 2a
  +-------------------- Cumberlandia_monodonta     
  |                                                
--+                 +-- Pseudunio_marocanus        
  |  +--------------+                              
  |  |              +-- Pseudunio_auricularius     
  +--+                                             
     |  +-------------- Gibbosula_laosensis        
     |  |                                          
     +--+           +-- Margaritifera_dahurica     
        |  +--------+                              
        |  |        +-- Margaritifera_margaritifera
        +--+                                       
           |  +-------- Margaritifera_falcata      
           |  |                                    
           +--+     +-- Margaritifera_laevis       
              |  +--+                              
              |  |  +-- Margaritifera_middendorffi 
              +--+                                 
                 |  +-- Margaritifera_marrianae    
                 +--+                              
                    +-- Margaritifera_hembeli      

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