PhyloCode prefix/suffix?

[Thomas Lammers]

At 10:42 AM 10/24/00 -0700, Byron J. Adams wrote:

>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.*

Actually, it wasn't in jest.  I think it looks pretty good, and indeed
conveys the idea that this name is something "different," and that some
folks (not I -- that's where the jest comes in, I guess) think that it is
in some way a "better" name.


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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