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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:53:01 +0200 (MEST)
From: [unknown]
To: phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu
Subject: =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_Stormbergia_dangershoeki,_new_Early_Jurassic_or=

> --- Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
> Datum: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:55:44 -0700 (PDT)
>
> David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:
>=20
> <Recommendation, maybe even Rule:
>  Clade names created by adding a prefix to another clade name shoul=
d/must
> be defined in a manner consistent with the meaning of the prefix.=
=20
> [...]>
>
>   Not only will this end up dictating naming conventions,

To a certain extent, yes. The idea is, as always, to reduce confusion=
.

> but it assumes that the prefixes will not be used in any other way.
> The Eulipotyphla, for example, doesn't refer to a subset of a
> monophyletic Lipotyphla any more than Euarchonta
> does a subset of a monophyletic Archonta. The latter names being
> paraphyletic, the "eu-" names being defined to contain a monophylet=
ic
> assemblage, the "true" members of the clade.

I was thinking of such examples, and this is why I added "if both are=
 to be=20
defined". Most probably Lipotyphla and Archonta will simply not be de=
fined,=20
simply because their contents are no longer thought to form one clade=
 each.

(Wasn't Euornithopoda once such a case? Or was this a misinterpretati=
on by=20
the secondary literature?)

> Such naming conventions would then be carried to "genera"
> such as *Euoplocephalus* (which wasn't named from a *Oplocephalus*
> but WAS named in allusion to another taxon for which the name was
> built from, hence the "true armored head").

This is a case like *Euparkeria*. As I mentioned, cases like these sh=
ould=20
(most probably) be explicitely allowed to stay, consistency with the=
=20
literature outweighing the small possible confusion.

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