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Phylogeny of birds
Delphinoidea Gray 1821 (*) stands for "the superfamily with Delphinus Linnaeus 1758 (the type of which is (by Linnaean tautonymy) Delphinus delphis Linnaeus 1758) as its type". This name (including its ending) is fully governed by the ICZN. Is there a phylogenetic definition for this name ...- l_raty
- Post #106
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Phylogeny of birds
Clade Columbimorphae Clade Pteroclimesites Clade Pteroclidae Clade Mesitornithidae Clade Columbidae In phylogenetic nomenclature, all recognized taxa are clades, and there are no ranks at all. One of the declared purposes is to remove redundancy, which is present in ranked nomenclature...- l_raty
- Post #99
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Phylogeny of birds
The two names are parts of two distinct (competing) naming systems. The first is the name of a taxon ranked as a superorder, formed according to a convention (internal to ornithology) which requires that superorder names be made of the stem of the name of an included genus with the addition of...- l_raty
- Post #95
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature
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Phylogeny of birds
Springer, Gatesy. 2017. On the importance of homology in the age of phylogenomics. Syst. Biodiv. [abstract & supp. mat.] Abstract Homology is perhaps the most central concept of phylogenetic biology. Molecular systematists have traditionally paid due attention to the homology statements that...- l_raty
- Post #58
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature