[Taxacom] Usefulness vs. convenience (Protista)

[Curtis Clark]

On 12/19/2010 5:13 PM, Stephen Thorpe wrote:
> but the "paraphyletic nut" is all too often too hard to crack ...
>
And that, iirc, is why Wiley came up with the idea of "plesion".

But name me an uncrackable paraphyletic group (I'm not saying there 
aren't any, I just can't think of any off the top of my head). Certainly 
Reptilia seems well-cracked.

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