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Re: Reptiles

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Reptiles
From: chris brochu <cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 08:06:42 -0500
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>Next they'll try to formally redefine the term 'fish' to include all
>gnathostomes
>(and once again abandon an already perfectly good and well-established formal
>name)!
>


Actually, since "fish" is not a formal taxon name at all, we won't be
redefining fish that way, and can't.  "Fish" is a colloquial name.



chris

Christopher Brochu
Department of Geology
Field Museum of Natural History
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Chicago, IL 60605

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References:
- Re: Reptiles
  - From: "Lee J. McLean" <ljmac@ozemail.com.au>

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