rankless nomenclature

[Jean-Michel MAES]

Sorry, I am a little bit tired because of the choice linnean or rankless
nomenclature.
As Doug Yanega tells, I think it will takes a long time to change around
1,000,000 names.
I think that a good way for the moment could be to let the linnean names and
at the same time give them a rankless name or code. So you keep the ventage
of popular scientific names, wher you can make some print mistakes, and the
ventage of a phylogenetic system.

By the way, I do not understand "rankless", my english is really deficient.
Is that a system without rank, without families, genera, etc... I understand
phylogeny as a system which make groups (no important how you name the
groups) then there is a hierarchy, Isn't so ?

Sincerely,

Jean-Michel MAES
MUSEO ENTOMOLOGICO
AP 527
LEON
NICARAGUA
tel 505-3116586
jmmaes at ibw.com.ni
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Yanega <dyanega at POP.UCR.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: rankless nomenclature


> Phil Cantino wrote:
>
> > For
> >example, a name that is valid under the ICZN but does not have a
> >published phylogenetic definition cannot be an accepted name under
> >the PhyloCode.
>
> Okay, I realize you can't respond again today, but does the above *really*
> not strike you or anyone else as absurd? Just think of what a vanishingly
> small percentage of the > 1 million names presently valid under the ICZN
> actually have a "published phylogenetic definition," and then tell me,
> honestly, that you believe that phylogeneticists (which, you will perhaps
> be amused to know, is what I would be, were I actively revising any
> speciose taxa) will find the time and energy to RE-publish all of the
> remaining names along with phylogenies. The vast majority of extant
> arthropod names will NEVER be accepted under the PhyloCode, even if the
> vertebrate names get taken care of in a few decades. You are, by
> definition, making it impossible for the PhyloCode to ever replace the
> Linnaean system, since there are many more Linnaean-named taxa than can
> ever be placed into phylogenies.
>
> Yikes,
>
>
> Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
> Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
> phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
>            http://entmuseum9.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
>   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
>         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82
>