[Taxacom] Phylogenetic Game

[Richard Zander]

Ah, but just you wait, Paul. Soon a proposal will be introduced that renders as illegitimate all new names that make another taxon paraphyletic. 
 
This would be a good test of the steel in the resolve of evolutionary taxonomists. Would you let this happen? 
 
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Richard H. Zander
Missouri Botanical Garden
PO Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166 U.S.A.
richard.zander at mobot.org
 

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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu namens John Grehan

> A species name would seem to be paraphyletic if it is the same
> name applied to the entity that included the isolate that
> differentiated. If the larger range was given a new name then
> that would not be paraphyletic.

***
This is a novelty. I am familiar with names being unavailable,
illegitimate, incorrect, etc, but I have never heard of a name
being paraphyletic. I assume that this is according to the
International Code of Cladistic Nomenclature, or some such
new Code?

Paul van Rijckevorsel



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