Criconematid Project
Phylogenetic Trees

Phylogenetic trees constructed from collected specimens of the suborder Criconematina Siddiqi, 1980
Clades on the trees are linked to more detailed information on the individual specimens, including photographs, measurements, collection data and GenBank records, as available.
Updating of trees is ongoing, and new revised trees are produced as necessary
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In these pages, Macroposthonia = Mesocriconema
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Tree 2-18S; Expanded Criconematid Guide-Tree
A maximum-likelihood tree using 635 bp 3' region of 18S rDNA

[updated 3-2010]

Crico BArcode Tree

Tree 1-18S; Criconematid Barcode Tree
A maximum-likelihood tree using 635 bp 3' region of 18S rDNA
as reported in
Tropical nematode diversity: vertical stratification
of nematode communities in a Costa Rican humid lowland rainforest

Powers et al., Molecular Ecology 2009


[updated 11-2007]
Expnaded Crico Barcode Tree