[Taxacom] Two great 2013 papers on Madagascar's fauna

[John Grehan]

Ken,

Its nice to see postings on recent papers, and its fine for you or anyone
to promote what they regard as positive for those articles. But to just say
that I can be counted on to rain on their parade without explaining why you
see their parade to be so good that any critique is some how inappropriate
seems to be to be somewhat disingenuous.

John Grehan



On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Ken Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Dear All,                                                    I was
> delighted to find another paper published in 2013 which pretty much sums up
> my own views on the biota of Madagascar.  It even discusses the profound
> effect that the K-T extinction had on shaping what is found there today (as
> opposed to its Mesozoic fauna).  I love this paper, and it is open access.
>  What more could one ask for?  Nevertheless, I'm afraid that John can be
> counted on to rain on their parade.  Here's a weblink:
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0062086
>                                                And in another 2013 paper,
> it has been shown that the so-called "Malagasy aardvark" is actually
> related to the tenrecs.  I had expressed my hope (in a 2002 posting on the
> dinosaur mailing list) that molecular sequence data could be extracted to
> solve this mystery (and it came from collagen).  Anyway, this problematic
> fossil has found a home in Order Afrosoricida, so assigning it to the
> monotypic Order Bibymalagasia is no longer necessary (nor informative).
>  Here's a weblink to that paper:
> http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/87681498/molecular-phylogeny-plesiorycteropus-reassigns-extinct-mammalian-order-bibymalagasia
>                               ----------------------------Ken Kinman
> P.S.  Are there other recent papers on Madagascar's fauna that I have
> failed to discover?  I really need to find time to catch up on the recent
> literature on a lot of other taxa as well.
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