As Fred Pleijel's just-published procedure for practical implementation of
phylogenetic taxonomy has been noticed over on Taxacom we might as well
continue/start considering it quietly, and (hopefully) discuss it publicly as
well.
Pleijel, Fredrik. 1999. Phylogenetic Taxonomy, a Farewell to Species, and
a Revision of Heteropodarke (Hesionidae, Polychaeta, Annelida). --
Systematic biology, 48(4):755-789
[The title has all the taxon names italicised]
Abstract: Cladistic relationships between 7 parts of the hesionid polychaete
group Heteropodarke are assessed in a parsimony analysis based on 34
morphological characters. Taxon names are defined by apomorphy-based
phylogenetic definitions, without reference to Linnean ranks or types.
Species entities are omitted and denied any role in taxonomy; taxon names
refer to rnonophyletic groups only. Linnean binomial species names are
not employed, and all taxa are assigned uninomials. Previously known parts
of Heteropodarke (Africana Hartmann-Schrvder, 1974; Formalis, Perkins,
1984; Heteromorpha Hartmann-Schrvder, 1962; Lyonsi Perkins, 1984;
Xiamenensis Ding, Wu, and Westheide, 1997) are reexamined, and
Bidentata, new taxon, and "Zmyrina" (informal name) are described from
Papua New Guinea and Belize, respectively. The new taxon Crassichaetae
is named for a subgroup of Heteropodarke, which is diagnosed by
enlarged, anteriorly situated falcigers, and includes Africana,
Heteromorpha, Lyonsi, and Xiamenensis. Within this group Africana and
Heteromorpha are treated as taxa inquirendae
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Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>
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