[Previous by date - Galtonia (a test case?)]
[Next by date - Siphonophora a real test case (forget Galtonia) (fwd)]
[Previous by subject - Fwd: PROPOSED ARTICLE X - autonyms]
[Next by subject - Fwd: PhyloCode: How much will the Committee have to do?]
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:22:50 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
To: PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Fwd: PhyloCode Test Case (Siphonophora?)
I'm forwarding this to the list for those who did not receive it on either the Dinosaur or VrtPaleo mailing lists. ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- eldon.k@usa.net wrote: > Date: 11 Mar 2001 08:42:21 MST > Reply-to: vrtpaleo@usc.edu > From: eldon.k@usa.net > To: vrtpaleo@usc.edu > Subject: PhyloCode Test Case (Siphonophora?) > > > Jaime, > Actually the problems go even beyond just botanists and > zoologists > fighting over generic names. If you want a more complicated > "test case", I > would suggest trying taxon SIPHONOPHORA. > Siphonophora is a genus of millipede, but it is also an > Order (sometimes > Subclass) of hydrozoan (for which the common name > "siphonophore" is often > used). One might think the cnidarian ordinal name should win > out (and rename > the myriapod genus), but it's more complicated than that. > Siphonophora the > genus is the type of Family Siphonophoridae, and also Order > Siphonophorida. > So anyway, I wish the PhyloCode enthusiasts the best of > luck in trying > to decide whether to give Siphonophora to the marine > zoologists or the > entomologists. Whichever way you go, you are going to make > one side or the > other unhappy. > ------Ken Kinman > **************************************************** > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/