Message 2003-08-0002: Re: phlyogenetic systematics/the PhyloCode -- new philosophical overview

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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:05:00 +0200
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: PML <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: phlyogenetic systematics/the PhyloCode -- new philosophical overview

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  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: StephanPickering@cs.com=20
  Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:25 PM

  Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research=20
  Volume 41(3):162-174 -- August 2003=20
  doi:10.1046/j.1439-0469.2003.00236.x=20

  Ceci n'est pas une pipe: names, clades and phylogenetic nomenclature
Ingenious headline! :-)
  Fredrik  Pleijel and G. W. Rouse=20
  ABSTRACT=20
  [...] Among these, it is useful to tag the smallest named clades, =
which all represent non-overlapping groups. Such taxa  - LITUs
Since the libraries are closed in August, I'd like to ask what will =
happen if someone tries to name a LITU within a LITU. For example, will =
the former cease to be a LITU (and get a capital letter)? Or are LITUs =
by definition as small as possible, so such an attempt will =
automatically result in the latter being the sistergroup of the former?=

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<DIV>Ingenious headline! :-)</DIV>
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LITUs</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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cease to be a LITU (and get a capital letter)? Or are LITUs by =
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