Fig. 1

The phylogeny of adeonids based on 17 genes. Maximum likelihood topology of 35 adeonid ingroup taxa with 10,531 nucleotide and amino acid characters inferred using RAxML. The numbers on the internal nodes are ML bootstrap values (BP from RAxML) followed by posterior probabilities (PP from MrBayes). Black circles indicate 100BP and 1.00PP. The placement and statistical support for the outgroup is taken from Additional file 1: Figure S3 and represented with a stippled line. Adeonellidae also represents the lepralioid frontal shield form as does Adeonidae the umbonuloid form (note the frontal shield form has been inferred from samples other than those represented in the study and that the Cucullipora frontal shield form is unknown). Abbreviations for countries: W. Aus = Western Australia, JP = Japan, NZ = New Zealand, SA = South Africa, CV = Cape Verde, BR = Brazil, CR = Croatia, ALG = Algeria, and CY = Cyprus. The scale bare represents substitutions per site