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

FM(U)otW(aolcb) is the web version of the MUSSEL Project Database. Follow the links to browse the data or use the custom Google search field. Either way, you win!

This page documents data for Hewitt et al. (2019), 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

Hewitt, T.L., D.A. Woolnough & D.T. Zanatta. 2019. Population genetic analyses of Lampsilis cardium (Bivalvia: Unionida) reveal multiple post-glacial colonization routes into the Great Lakes drainage. American Malacological Bulletin 37(1): 21-34.

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Cladogram Figures

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fig. 2

Taxonomic Opinions

Epioblasma torulosa rangiana

Fusconaia flava

Lampsilis cardium (Rafinesque, 1820)

Lampsilis fasciola

Lampsilis ornata (Conrad, 1835)

Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)

Lampsilis radiata

Lampsilis siliquoidea

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)

Cladogram Figure 2
  +----------------------------- Margaritifera_margaritifera
  |                                                         
--+  +-------------------------- Pyganodon_grandis          
  |  |                                                      
  +--+  +----------------------- Fusconaia_flava            
     |  |                                                   
     +--+  +-------------------- Lampsilis_siliquoidea      
        |  |                                                
        |  |  +----------------- Lampsilis_fasciola         
        +--+  |                                             
           |  |              +-- Epioblasma_rangiana        
           |  +--------------+                              
           +--+              +-- Lampsilis_radiata          
              |                                             
              |  +-------------- Lampsilis_ornata           
              |  |                                          
              +--+           +-- Lampsilis_cardium__1       
                 |  +--------+                              
                 |  |        +-- Lampsilis_ovata__1         
                 +--+                                       
                    |  +-------- Lampsilis_cardium__6       
                    |  |                                    
                    +--+  +----- Lampsilis_cardium__5       
                       |  |                                 
                       +--+  +-- Lampsilis_cardium__2       
                          |  |                              
                          |  +-- Lampsilis_ovata__2         
                          +--+                              
                             +-- Lampsilis_cardium__3       
                             |                              
                             +-- Lampsilis_cardium__4       

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