Message 2004-06-0016: Fw: Pan-clades, good or bad?

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:51:24 +0200
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
To: PML <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Fw: Pan-clades, good or bad?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:06 AM

> >     A good point. After all and for instance, Insecta, when first used
> > by Linnaeus, included crustaceans as well as insects. I can't 
> > imagine anyone arguing for a redefinition of Insecta based on this.
>
> If molecular phylogenies of Arthropoda have any significance- how
> prescient of him.  Of course (and ironically, might I add), that clade
> is now called Pancrustacea.

  

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