PhyloCode prefix/suffix?

[Barry Roth]

--- Sean Edwards <mzfses at MAIL1.MCC.AC.UK> wrote:
> Richard Pyle suggested a suffix (rather than a
> prefix) to distinguish
> phylocode names, to allow 'visual scans'.
>
> Is there any mileage in a non-pronounced symbol, for
> which there must
> be several candidates from the keyboard: '|' (bar),
> '#' '&', slashes,
> angle-brackets, etc.?

In a 1996 article (The Veliger 39[1]:18-42) I used the
convention that the names of taxa that have
phylogeny-based definitions (or are used with regard
to their phylogeny-based definitions, if more than one
definition exists) were set in small capital letters.
I doubt that this is something people will want to do
all the time (although not necessarily for reasons I
think are logically sound), but it may be useful in
papers in which it is necessary to discuss both taxa
with and without phylogeny-based definitions.

Barry Roth

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