renaming genera (rankless)

[Curtis Clark]

At 04:50 AM 10/13/00, Philip Cantino wrote:
>If this were done, the decision would not be based
>simply on the higher rank of the latter but on the fact that the name
>Archaea sensu Woese is far more widely known than the spider genus
>name.

Ken, it seems to me that, in addition to fighting Phylocode and promoting
your own system, you should also plan to register both Metabacteria and the
spider Archaea with Phylocode as soon as that becomes possible.


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