[Taxacom] Euphorbiales/Malpighiales

[Mario Blanco]

Thanks, Robin. James Reveal also informed me of that in an off-list 
message. It is interesting that the ICBN expressly excludes 
suprafamilial taxa from the principle of priority.


From:     Robin Leech <releech at telus.net>

Mario,
I do not believe that names above the family level have a
published date for priority.  I believe it is usage, and who is
the present specialist using this or that ordinal name, that
sets the standards for use.
Robin Leech

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From: "Mario Blanco" <mblanco at flmnh.ufl.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Euphorbiales/Malpighiales


>
>  Probably because they use a recircumscribed order Malpighiales
>  Jussieu (published in 1835). But you have a point; Euphorbiales
>  Lindley was published earlier, in 1833, so Euphorbiales should have
>  priority.
>
>  There is a short note on priority of family names in the APG II paper
>  (2003. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 141, note on pages 415-416), but there is
>  no mention of how they dealt with names of higher level taxa. They
>  might have simply overlooked the name Euphorbiales. Or there could be
>  some other explanation.
>
>  -Mario
>
>  michael.heads at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > Why do some authors call the large order including Euphorbia
> > 'Malpighiales' instead of Euphorbiales, when Euphorbiaceae occur
> > just about everywhere and Malpighiaceae are much less common?
> >
> > Michael Heads
> >
> > Wellington, New Zealand.
> >
> > My papers on biogeography are at the Buffalo Museum website:
> >
> 
www.sciencebuff.org/research/current-research-activities/john-grehan/evolutionary-biography/panbiogeographic-publications/heads-publications/
>
> >
>
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