Message 2004-10-0126: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: PROPOSED ARTICLE X - autonyms

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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:05:58 -0400
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: PROPOSED ARTICLE X - autonyms

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

Louis Chinnery asked:

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

Magnoliophyta could be defined as applying to the panstem, but this=
=20
would likely confuse people because Magnoliophyta and Angiospermae=
=20
are widely understood by botanists to be alternative names for the=
=20
same clade.  The same applies to other pairs of typified versus=20
untypified names (e.g., Equisetophyta and Sphenophyta, Pinophyta and=
=20
Coniferophyta, Lamiaceae and Labiatae).

Phil



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