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Welcome to the Tree of Life Cladogram Request page

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Templates:

  • {{Clade}}
    Default cladograms
  • {{Cladogram}}
    Boxed cladograms
  • {{Cladex}}
    Extended cladogram parameters

What is a cladogram:

  • A cladogram is an infographic that shows the relationships of scientific taxa. These can be useful to show how animals are related in almost any article on organisms.

What can have a cladogram:

  • Any article with enough information in the literature about its systematics can have a cladogram added. A single cladogram can be used on multiple articles.
    • Exception: Cladograms cannot be created in situations where the taxon has not appeared in at least one published analysis. Linnaean systematics cannot be translated into cladograms. Original research cladograms are not allowed.

Formats for cladograms:

  • The most significant features of cladograms can often be altered to fit specific articles with limited space.
  • The font size can be reduced with larger cladograms so that less space is taken up.
    • Default font size is 85% point size but can be changed between 75 and 100% upon request.
  • Line lengths affect how far the cladogram reaches across the page.
    • To fit images in the whitespace beside a cladogram with over 15 taxa a size below 90% is recommended, but sizes upwards that can be used to fill the cladogram across the whole article left-right.
  • Boxing a cladogram can allow for it to be positioned in line with text, and onto specific sides of a page.
    • Exception: Very large cladograms (~40+ taxa) should never be boxed, as they will take up far too much vertical space.
  • When specific formats are wanted please mention them in the cladogram request, otherwise Cladogram Creators will use their own discretion.

Images in cladograms:

  • Images like silhouettes or lateral views of skulls or life restorations can be added to cladograms
    • Note: when adding images, it is important to ensure that |middle is placed before the |thumb or equivalent, otherwise Firefox will render the images aligned to the bottom of the text and the taxon named will become uncentered.

Tips for Cladogram Creators:

  • Try to avoid edit conflicts by promptly replying to all requests that you intend to work on. Losing all your progress isn't fun.
  • Feel free to ask for help from others, we're all in this together.
  • Keep the OR rules in mind when creating cladograms. Don't add unpublished information to them.
  • Feel free to experiment with different features.


Requests

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Myliobatiformes

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Hi there! I am working on the Myliobatiformes article as a WikiEd project, and my professor led me here to request a cladogram for the order. It is one of the four orders of batoids, and has 12 families as its children. Among these families are stingrays, eagle rays, and manta rays! Dancin&Lovin (talk) 15:27, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to help! Do you have a source or reference to create a cladogram from? -SlvrHwk (talk) 16:02, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! I have been referencing this list from World Register of Marine Species (WORMS). https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196069 Dancin&Lovin (talk) 19:02, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A list of taxa is not enough to make a cladogram. Per the rules of Wikipedia (WP:OR), we can only recreate existing cladograms that are published in scientific literature, and the link you sent doesn't contain a cladogram or any other kind of discernible info from which to make such a diagram. A Cynical Idealist (talk) 19:33, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Here is a cladogram from Advances of Marine Biology, 2017 via ScienceDirect. The cladogram can be seen in section E. of chapter 4. Hopefully this will work! Dancin&Lovin (talk) 13:49, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have a link? Article/chapter title? -SlvrHwk (talk) 14:25, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780126709506500059
Chapter 4 Interrelationships of Batoid Fishes, Section E Phylogenetic Analysis Dancin&Lovin (talk) 14:41, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dancin&Lovin do you have any input regarding the suggestions below? As a note, the source you provided is not from Advances of Marine Biology, not was it published in 2017. The references provided by Jts1882 are likely more up-to-date. -SlvrHwk (talk) 21:07, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The sources provided by Jts1882 look great and would be just right for the article. Thank you @Jts1882 for contributing. Dancin&Lovin (talk) 21:06, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Dancin&Lovin: Cladogram from Rays of the World (Fig, 2.1) added below: -SlvrHwk (talk) 21:39, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! @SlvrHwk Dancin&Lovin (talk) 22:50, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict)
You could use Chondrichthyan Tree of Life. You can get a cladogram of the Myliobatiformes by expanding the node. However, there are inconistencies with the family taxonomy in the Wikipedia article. A couple of species out of place (Dasyatis microps and Himantura schmardae) and Zanobatus groups with the Rhinopristiformes.  —  Jts1882 | talk  14:49, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alternatively there is a cladogram in Rays of the World (2016), available from Internet Archive (one hour loans) or Googlebooks (partial preview).  —  Jts1882 | talk  15:24, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Myliobatiformes

Xenarthra

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Requesting a new Xenarthra family tree based on figure 3 of Molecular phylogenetics unveils the ancient evolutionary origins of the enigmatic fairy armadillos Please focus only on genera. LittleJerry (talk) 18:46, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Working on it. A Cynical Idealist (talk) 18:53, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@LittleJerry: Done. A Cynical Idealist (talk) 19:03, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Xenarthra
Fixed the cladogram. Two of the clades weren't displaying (Dasypus and Calyptophractus+Chlamyphorus). I added the subfamilies in a separate edit so if they aren't wanted the cladogram can be got from the page history (this edit).  —  Jts1882 | talk  09:33, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Lotheridium description

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Requesting that the Deltatheroida branch in Figure 5 from this 2015 paper be made into a wiki-usable cladogram. Olmagon (talk) 20:35, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Olmagon: how does this look? Do you want Pappotherium included as well? -SlvrHwk (talk) 21:20, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah that looks good. I'm not entirely sure whether to add Pappo, it seems to be a deltatheroidan yet that paper puts it just outside the clade for some reason. Olmagon (talk) 21:47, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Actually can this be changed to resemble the way it's shown in Figure 4 of this instead @SlvrHwk, it seems to be a bit more recent and puts Papp into the clade. Olmagon (talk) 21:54, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This look better? -SlvrHwk (talk) 22:09, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah thanks Olmagon (talk) 23:41, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Deltatheroida
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