Tree and traits

The atlas

Every ghost on one maximum-likelihood tree, its 20 coded characters lined up beside it, the way a phylogenetics paper would draw it. Select a name, or search and press Enter, to read its card.

Vengeful Female 24
Nature / Ancestral Spirit 35
Volant Viscerophage 14
Pesugihan / Wealth Demon 12
Therianthrope / Shapeshifter 14
Undead / Revenant 18
Elemental / Demonic 38
Hominid Cryptid 8
Volant Cryptid 3

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166 of 166 match

Branches take the clade color where every tip below shares it. Filled dots mark ultrafast bootstrap ≥ 95, open dots 80–94. In the matrix, a filled square means present, an outlined square absent, a half-filled square variable, and a dot unknown; the last two columns give body plan and diet as state codes (see Methods). † outgroup, ◆ some or all traits coded by folklore synthesis.

The atlas

Clade colors