PhyloCode prefix/suffix?

[Byron J. Adams]

on 10/24/00 6:20 AM, Thomas Lammers at lammers at VAXA.CIS.UWOSH.EDU wrote:

>
> An asterisk might be nice, too, but many floristic works use that to denote
> non-native species in checklists.  How about an intitial exclamation mark,
> e.g., !Campanulaceae -- give it a little pep and excitement, and imply that
> because of our confidence in phylogenetic reconstruction, we're REALLY sure
> this is a group worth naming.

Though your proposal to use the exclamation mark is mostly in jest, I note
that it has been used previously in cladistics to annotate errors in
predictions of biogeographic patterns.*

Byron

*(Nelson & Platnick 1981.  Systematics and Biogeography/cladistics and
vicariance, Columbia University Press, new York.)


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Byron J. Adams
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