Message 2004-10-0124: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: PROPOSED ARTICLE X - autonyms

Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:05:00 -0400

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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:05:00 -0400
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: PROPOSED ARTICLE X - autonyms

--- Philip Cantino <cantino@ohiou.edu> wrote:

> >But why would you need _Panangiospermae_ as a taxon when
_Pan-Angiospermae_
> >would already exist?
>
> Pan-Angiospermae is an autonym.  Shouldn't major panstem clades als=
o
> have a formal name?

Michael Keesey wrote:

"the total clade of _Angiospermae_ (assuming it is made a crown clade=
) has
never been given a name, to my knowledge, so there is no need to set =
up a
clade synonymous with the autonym."

There are competing names, e.g. the typified Magnoliophyta. Could the
existing typified names be used for one class of clade providing that=
 the
name is not currently being applied to a polyphyletic group?

Louis Chinnery
University of the West Indies
Barbados



  

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