Hyriidae Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)
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Recent papers in Hyriidae
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- Conservation, Freshwater Ecology, Hyriidae, Threatening Processes
No genus or species (in the biological sense) exists in a vacuum, and human attempts to correctly classify new specimens in a way that reflects evolutionary relationships will necessarily fall short unless as much data as possible are... more
No genus or species (in the biological sense) exists in a vacuum, and human attempts to correctly classify new specimens in a way that reflects evolutionary relationships will necessarily fall short unless as much data as possible are taken into account. When specimen morphology or the sense of taxonomic history are incomplete, misnaming can occur, leading to a more complicated picture of the higher-order systematic relationships. This study aims to organize information in such a way that suspect fossil and modern specimen classifications can be identified and examined. The family Hyriidae of freshwater mussels exists in the southern hemisphere, preodminantly in Australia and South America, but there are examples of fossil material from the North American interior that have been classified as belonging to this family. Additionally, when fossil representatives of this family were first identified, the practice was to apply to them the names of extant genera and species-a practice tha...
No genus or species (in the biological sense) exists in a vacuum, and human attempts to correctly classify new specimens in a way that reflects evolutionary relationships will necessarily fall short unless as much data as possible are... more
No genus or species (in the biological sense) exists in a vacuum, and human attempts to correctly classify new specimens in a way that reflects evolutionary relationships will necessarily fall short unless as much data as possible are taken into account. When specimen morphology or the sense of taxonomic history are incomplete, misnaming can occur, leading to a more complicated picture of the higher-order systematic relationships. This study aims to organize information in such a way that suspect fossil and modern specimen classifications can be identified and examined. The family Hyriidae of freshwater mussels exists in the southern hemisphere, preodminantly in Australia and South America, but there are examples of fossil material from the North American interior that have been classified as belonging to this family. Additionally, when fossil representatives of this family were first identified, the practice was to apply to them the names of extant genera and species-a practice tha...