Subphylum Clitellata

[Geoff Read]

Annelida devotees,

I see there is a school which elevates the clitellates to a subphylum (ref 
below). Presumably that makes the polychaetes a subphylum too (if 
not something different altogether under future/present  Rouse-Fauchaldian 
analysis) - or does it? Is this inflationary nomenclature, callously 
unmindful of textbook and encyclopedia writers whose works become obsolete 
overnight, or a move of deep and fundamental significance we should all 
adopt?


Gelder,Stuart R (1996): A review of the taxonomic nomenclature and a
checklist of the species of the Branchiobdellae (Annelida: Clitellata).
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109(4), 653-663.

Geoff
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  Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>