[Taxacom] Usefulness vs. convenience (Protista)

[Stephen Thorpe]

>under the cladistic scheme of Schwartz and Grehan it is Pongidae for orangutans, 
>Panidae for African apes and Hominidae for humans. Nothing confusing about that

No, but it is way too oversplit - 3 families for 4 extant genera!




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From: John Grehan <jgrehan at sciencebuff.org>
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Sent: Mon, 20 December, 2010 3:45:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Usefulness vs. convenience (Protista)

I don't see any confusion with taxonomic labels so long as one knows the 
phylogeny to which it is appended - whether or not one is a cladist.

As for Pongidae - under the cladistic scheme of Schwartz and Grehan it is 
Pongidae for orangutans, Panidae for African apes and Hominidae for humans. 
Nothing confusing about that.

John Grehan