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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:37:19 +0100
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: PhyloCode mailing list <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Fw: reply to David M on species
> The PhyloCode does actually provide possibilities for naming clades without > naming species. Check Article 11.1- 11.5 on these issues. You may use > species as specifiers, but you may also use type or non-type specimens. If > types then you do not actually make any explicit, direct statements about > species, and if non-types you make none at all! True. But Art. 11.5 still says that non-type specimens may only be used if they don't belong to any named species under any code. This is what I think should be changed, regarding the difficulty/impossibility of recognising fossil species.