[Taxacom] feathered flying fish

[Richard Pyle]

We're all just colonial assemblages of symbiotic prokaryotes, serving as an
environment for other prokaryotes.

There are no species; only descendants.

Aloha,
Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu 
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Kenneth Kinman
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:41 PM
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: [Taxacom] feathered flying fish
> 
>  Curtis,
>         So your ichthyologist friend considers himself a 
> fish? Sponges are also probably paraphyletic, so I guess he 
> would consider himself a sponge too. Bryophyta is 
> paraphyletic, so does that
> mean cacti are bryophytes?      
>        Anyway, this is the first time I've ever heard birds 
> call "feathered flying fish", even in jest. To me all this 
> just further demonstrates the absurdity of paraphylophobia 
> and compulsive obsessions
> with strict cladifications.      
>                       ------Ken
> Kinman        
> ----------------------------------------------
> Kenneth Kinman wrote: 
>        Well, I didn't actually set myself up, because I
> specified "fish".  Owls are descendants of fish, but they are 
> not fish.      
> 
> Curtis responded:   
>        Not according to my cladist ichthyologist friend 
> (although he explicitly doesn't study the feathered flying fish). 
> 
> 
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