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

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Mickey Mortimer wrote:

> Actually, Livezey and Zusi found grebes and flamingos to both be members of 
> their waterbird clade Natatores inside Neoaves, though with very weak 
> support.

In their quasi-Linnaean classification, yes, both grebes and flamingoes are 
part of their "Division" Natatores, within the Gaviomorphae and 
Ciconiimorphae, respectively.  But support was very weak indeed, and would 
collapse under bootstrapping into the clades Pygopodo-turbinares and 
Stegano-grallatores (ughh, hyphenated names!)  So I would say that with 
negligible support for a Natatores/Mirandornithes clade, this group is 
effectively equivalent to Neoaves.  I guess we're splitting hairs here... or 
feathers.

Cheers

Tim

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