Figure 2

Alternative phylogenetic hypotheses of the otophysans. A) Morphology-based hypothesis of Fink and Fink [27] and that of Dimmick and Larson [28] based on combined morphological and molecular data; Molecular-based hypotheses of B) Dimmick and Larson [28] and Saitoh et al. (maximum likelihood analysis) [4]; C) Ortí and Meyer [29]; D) Ortí and Meyer [19]; E) Saitoh et al. (maximum parsimony analysis; the study includes only two characoids) [4] and Peng et al. [30]; F) Lavoué et al. [6] and Poulsen et al. [5] and Li et al. [31]; and G) this study.