Message 2000-09-0012: Re: New critics

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Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 13:20:06 +0200
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: PhyloCode mailing list <PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: New critics

> The PhyloCode includes several recommendations that are in the spirit
> of those suggested by David Marjanovic.  See, for example,
> Recommendations 9A-9D and 11B-11E.

They really are, only I would change the phrase "are likely to be" to
something like "could possibly be"/"have been suggested to be"/..., because
there are people who only consider their own phylogeny to be "likely". In
Recommendation 11C, I would include ootaxa ( = fossil eggs) next to
ichnotaxa and form genera (though I don't think anyone will ever try to use
oospecies as specifiers). As far as I know, ootaxa are not governed by any
code, the rules used by ootaxonomists seem to be rather informal.

> The naming system represented by Sapiens Homo Hominini Homininae
> Hominidae...,  which was proposed by Brent Mishler, is not under
> consideration for adoption in the PhyloCode.  It is therefore very
> misleading for Benton to have focused on this system.  The various
> naming methods for species that have been considered for the
> PhyloCode are summarized in Systematic Biology 48: 790-807 (1999).

I'll see if I can get this.


  

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