Long-branch endemics -- source of the term

[Robin Leech]

With my tongue very, very deeply into my cheek, I suggest that "Long-Branch"
comes from Ontario, Canada, where we used to make the famous Lee-Enfield
.303 British Rifle.  These rifles were made in UK, in Australia (Lithgow)
and Canada, starting way, way back.

So, a Long-Branch taxon is a gun identified as one made in Long Branch that
you have wherever you happen to be, and a Long-Branch endemic is one that
never left the plant.  teehee.
Robin Leech
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Roth" <barry_roth at YAHOO.COM>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 8:04 PM
Subject: Long-branch endemics -- source of the term


> I would like to know who first used the term "long-branch taxon" (i.e., a
non- or little-ramified clade that is the sister-group of a much more
branched clade), and/or where there is a good, citable definition of the
same in print.
>
> Also, the same question with regard to the term "long-branch endemic,"
which I assume means a long-branch taxon that is restricted to a particular
geographic area.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Barry Roth
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