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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:17:37 +0100
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: PhyloCode mailing list <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: remaining jobs... (Trivial)
> > BTW, maybe it should not be compulsory to refer every organism that can be > > put into a clade to a species. Especially among fossils it is usually > > impossible to determine what species are (because only the morphospecies > > concept is applicable). > > Okay. I suspect many extant species are in fact morphospecies, too. Aren't > they??? Most are. But among the living there are more possibilities to test this -- we can take the morphospecies concept into the genetic realm (which regularly results in surprises -- now we have 2 species each of African elephant, gorilla and orang-utan), we can use the biospecies concept, along with many others such as ecospecies. Many recent (bio)species are impossible to tell apart from their skeletons. We probably can't detect a fossil ring species. And so on.