Cohesion Species Delimitation
We employed the Bond and Stockman (2008) approach by utilizing two
criteria to define cohesion species: genetic exchangeability and/or
ecological interchangeability, which means that two or more populations
exchanging genes and having similar ecological niche attributes are
considered a cohesion species. To identify the number of evolutionary
lineages, we used the RAxML topology (Figure 2) to establish a baseline
evolutionary framework.