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Re: The PhyloCode will not address the naming of species (Was The Papers That Ate Cincinnati)



> But you _can't_ tell, since traditional
> classifications are under no
> obligation to follow cladograms!

Not officially. But from what I've seen, it would be
hard to push a polyphyletic Linnean taxon through peer
review today. Somebody will mind, inevitably. So we
got Stenostiridae, but not Hyliotidae. It's an
unwritten code-of-honor thing, but at least in
ornithology about everybody sticks to it.


Eike


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