[Taxacom] New paper on fungal higher classification

[Kenneth Kinman]

Hi Tony,

         This classification seems to be mostly just raising a lot of known taxa to higher taxonomic levels, and therefore creating a lot of new names.  Especially their new phyla Nuclearida and Fonticulida, created a long time ago as Orders which are grouped together within a Class Cristidiscoidea (see Ruggiero et al.'s 2015 Higher Classification of Organisms at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4418965/ ).

         So I guess they think that raising those to phylum status justifies raising Cristidiscoidea to Kingdom level.  But what is even worse is that instead of calling it Cristidiscoidea or some version of that name, they call it Kingdom Nucleariae (based on a genus name, instead of being descriptive).  Just what we don't need--- more Kingdoms in an inflationary classification.

                   -------------Ken

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Subject: [Taxacom] New paper on fungal higher classification

For those interested, the following paper crossed my (virtual) desk this
morning:

Tedersoo, L., Sánchez-Ramírez, S., Kõljalg, U. et al., 2018. High-level
classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological
analyses. Fungal Diversity (2018 online (?vol.90)): 1-25.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-018-0401-0  (online pubication date 16 May
2018)

It contains quite a lot of high level reorganisation of fungal
classification, including a new kingdom, Nucleariae, for 2 new
phyla, Nuclearida and Fonticulida. I await the views of other fungal
persons on the list (some of whom no doubt knew this work prior to
publication) for more expert comments.

Regards to all - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees
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