[Taxacom] resend Kingdom Protista (and Subkingdom Chromista)

[Stephen Thorpe]

Let's not forget that higher classification is primarily just a way to organize species information, many species of which are very poorly known (in part because too much funding goes to higher classification). On this note, I would like to exhibit an example Wikipedia page for a poorly known species (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristoreus_flavitarsis). I would be very interested if anyone has comments on how to improve pages like this. What does the reader want?

Stephen

--------------------------------------------
On Sat, 31/10/15, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] resend Kingdom Protista (and Subkingdom Chromista)
 To: "Kenneth Kinman" <kinman at hotmail.com>
 Cc: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Saturday, 31 October, 2015, 2:18 PM
 
 Thanks, Ken! Protista is
 one area of my data compilation that has
 definitely needed attention for a while - I had
 been waiting for things to
 stabilize
 somewhat and was possibly not alone in finding the Adl et
 al
 classification not very helpful from a
 taxon management perspective.
 
 Regards - Tony
 
 Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
 https://about.me/TonyRees
 
 On 31 October 2015 at 11:31, Kenneth Kinman
 <kinman at hotmail.com>
 wrote:
 
 > Hi Tony,
 >        You could reduce the number of
 your phyla in Protista fairly
 >
 quickly.  Oomycota, Hyphochytridriomycota, Labyrinthista,
 and Sagenista are
 > all heterokonts. 
 Cercozoa and several others are now usually combined into
 > a Phylum Rhizaria.  I assume
 Discomitochondria could be eliminated if it is
 > (as I suspect) the Discoba group
 (Euglenozoa, Percolozoa, and Loukozoa).
 >
 And I believe that Apicomplexa and Sporozoa are still
 synonyms.
 >                   
   --------Ken
 >
 >
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > > Date: Sat, 31
 Oct 2015 09:55:39 +1100
 > > From: tonyrees49 at gmail.com
 > > To: bckcdb at istar.ca
 > > CC: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 > > Subject: Re: [Taxacom] resend Kingdom
 Protista (and Subkingdom Chromista)
 >
 >
 > > On 10/30/2015 7:52 AM, Fred
 Schueler wrote:
 > >
 > > * here's a related question: does
 any individual systematist other than
 >
 Ken
 > > > keep an updated
 classification of all life?
 > >
 >
 > >
 > > Hi
 Fred, all,
 > >
 >
 > Well, I do - though I try not to introduce any
 nomenclatural novelties...
 > > In
 reality the "classification" aspect is more a
 placeholder /
 > scaffolding
 > > on which to hang my <0.5m genus
 name listings and is creaky in parts (and
 > > not totally internally
 consistent/up-to-date at this time), however if
 > > interested you can see it here:
 > > http://www.marinespecies.org/irmng/aphia.php?p=browser
 (new version; old
 > > version
 at
 > http://www.marine.csiro.au/mirrorsearch/ir_search.list_kingdom)
 > >
 > > (At present
 I do not particularly care for kingdom "Chromista"
 either,
 > but
 > >
 may have to bow to practices in other systems at some
 point).
 > >
 > >
 Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
 >
 > https://about.me/TonyRees
 > >
 _______________________________________________
 > > Taxacom Mailing List
 > > Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 > > http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
 > > The Taxacom Archive back to 1992 may
 be searched at:
 > http://taxacom.markmail.org
 > >
 > > Celebrating
 28 years of Taxacom in 2015.
 >
 _______________________________________________
 Taxacom Mailing List
 Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
 The Taxacom Archive back to 1992 may be
 searched at: http://taxacom.markmail.org
 
 Celebrating 28 years of
 Taxacom in 2015.