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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:30:49 -0500 (EST)
From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>
To: -PhyloCode Mailing List- <PhyloCode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: languages in PhyloCode
Would it be at all possible to use international symbols in establishing
clade names? E.g.
_Dinosauria nomen cladi conversum_ [Owen 1842]
= (_Megalosaurus bucklandii_ [Ritgen 1826] + _Iguanodon bernissartensis_
[Boulenger & van Beneden 1881])
_Saurischia nomen cladi conversum_ [Seeley 1888]
= (_Megalosaurus bucklandii_ [Ritgen 1826] <-- _Iguanodon bernissartensis_
[Boulenger & van Beneden 1881])
_Eusaurischia nomen cladi novum_
= (_Megalosaurus bucklandii_ [Ritgen 1826] + _Diplodocus longus_ [Marsh
1878])
Yes, there is a Latin phrase in each, but everyone's already used to using
"_gen. et sp. nov._", etc. anyway.
Of course, for apomorphy-based definitions and qualifying clauses, prose
would have to be used, anyway, I suppose. But for straightforward
formulations like those above, symbolic representation would make the
definitions clear across the international scientific community. (Or at
least those familiar with PhyloCode.)
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