[Taxacom] Arthropods and idiots!

[Stephen Thorpe]

Firmly in the category of pointless name changes, must be Euarthropoda for Arthropoda, which seems to be catching on, and has been recently adopted by Wikipedia! It all seems to be the result of one paper: 

Ortega‐Hernández, J. 2014 (online) 2016 (print): Making sense of ‘lower’ and ‘upper’ stem‐group Euarthropoda, with comments on the strict use of the name Arthropoda von Siebold, 1848. Biological reviews, 91(1): 255-273. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12168

Needless to say that there are no formal rules which govern the appropriateness or otherwise of names at this level, and, in the case of Arthropoda, universal usage for hundreds of years should be the main consideration!

Big sigh! 

Stephen