Rouse, Fauchald, Eibye-Jacobsen, Nielsen

[judy A Fournier]

Dear Annelidans:

        Trying to develop a cladistic analysis of the annelida is all very
well but I, at least, still await proof that the Polychaeta are
monophyletic or at least a cohesive natural grouping.   We tend to take it
for granted, but I am not at all sure that the Nereididae are any more
closely related to the Sabellidae than they might be to the Clitellata!

        Judy Fournier

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