DEVELOPING A PROTOCOL FOR THE CONVERSION OF RANK-BASED TAXON NAMES TO PHYLOGENETICALLY DEFINED CLADE NAMES, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY TURTLES (original) (raw)
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1 September 2004 DEVELOPING A PROTOCOL FOR THE CONVERSION OF RANK-BASED TAXON NAMES TO PHYLOGENETICALLY DEFINED CLADE NAMES, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY TURTLES
WALTER G. JOYCE,JAMES F. PARHAM,JACQUES ARMAND GAUTHIER
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WALTER G. JOYCE,1 JAMES F. PARHAM,2 JACQUES ARMAND GAUTHIER1
1Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, < >, < > walter.joyce@yale.edu jacques.gauthier@yale.edu
2Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley, 1101 VLSB, Berkeley 94720, < > parham@socrates.berkeley.edu
Abstract
We present a rank-free phylogenetic nomenclature for 25 well-established ancient clades of living turtles. This is the first attempt to document fully the nomenclatural history of a clade with the intent of proposing a coherent nomenclatural system to replace the traditional rank-based nomenclature. Because of the imperative to retain connectivity to the literature for information retrieval, due consideration is given to balancing the desire to develop a consistent system against the desire to conserve traditional associations between names, taxa (i.e., clades), and characters. Novel issues and problems that emerged during this review include: the unclear name/clade association of traditional names; the creation of synonymy lists from which to choose a name; difficulties associated with selecting a single criterion for choosing among multiple ‘subjectively synonymous’ names; identifying authorship for a converted traditional name; and the potential loss of nomenclatural information due to ‘functional homonyms.’ This work may provide a useful road map to those intent on converting their traditional rank-based nomenclatures to explicitly phylogenetic nomenclatures under the precepts of the PhyloCode.
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WALTER G. JOYCE, JAMES F. PARHAM, and JACQUES ARMAND GAUTHIER "DEVELOPING A PROTOCOL FOR THE CONVERSION OF RANK-BASED TAXON NAMES TO PHYLOGENETICALLY DEFINED CLADE NAMES, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY TURTLES," Journal of Paleontology 78(5), 989-1013, (1 September 2004). https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078<0989:DAPFTC>2.0.CO;2
Accepted: 1 December 2003; Published: 1 September 2004
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