[Taxacom] New paper on fungal higher classification

[Tony Rees]

So, is there anything in it that may stand the test of time/eventual
uptake, do you (or perhaps others) think?

- Tony


On 20 May 2018 at 10:32, Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> *From:* Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> on behalf of Tony
> Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 19, 2018 5:02 PM
> *To:* taxacom
> *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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