[Taxacom] Picobiliphyta?

[Ken Kinman]

Thomas Lammers wrote:
    I will say that my consistency hobgoblin would be happier if names of 
*all* ranks were based on a generic name: Magnoliophyta instead of 
Anthophyta, Polypodiophyta instead of Pteridophyta, etc.  But that's just 
me.
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Tom,
     I agree with you on Magnoliophyta (as well as Pinophyta and Bryophyta). 
  However, I (and perhaps a majority of others) prefer Pteridophyta.  You 
could always use Pteridiophyta (which actually is based on a genus, 
Pteridium) as some people already do.  I might even switch to Pteridiophyta 
myself (seems like a good compromise to me).  :-)

     But my particular hobgoblin at the present is Picobiliphyta, and I just 
hope that they don't use anything like that when they formally name the 
genus and family.  Would be nice to nip this problem in the bud while we 
still have the chance.
   ----Cheers,
          Ken Kinman
P.S.  Typifying *all* higher category names would never be popular in 
zoology, for either vertebrates (Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia, Primates, 
Rodentia, Chiroptera, etc.) or invertebrates (Mollusca, Gastropoda, 
Arthropoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Trilobita, etc.).  
Starobogatov actually tried to typify suprafamilial animal taxa, but it just 
hasn't caught on at all.  Which is fine with me, because it would be just 
too destabilizing and confusing.

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