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Paraphyletic versus monophyletic taxa—evolutionary versus cladistic classifications

Author(s) -

Hörandl Elvira

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

taxon

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1996-8175

pISSN - 0040-0262

DOI - 10.2307/25065631

Subject(s) - paraphyly , taxon , monophyly , cladistics , correct name , zoology , genealogy , biology , botany , phylogenetics , history , clade , gene , biochemistry

Taxonomy is at its crossroads in choosing criteria forclassification of taxa. The debate about recognition ofparaphyletic vs. monophyletic taxa and its nomenclatur-al consequences is continuing and is keenly disputed, ase.g., reflected by recent articles and opinion papers inTAXON (Brummitt, 2002, 2003, 2006; Nelson & al.,2003; Dias & al., 2005; Nordal & Stedje, 2005; Potter F Brummitt, 2002, 2006; Mayr & Bock,2002).In their recent review, Mayr & Bock (2002) outlinedcomprehensively the basic conceptual differences ofevolutionary (Darwinian) and cladistic (Hennigian) clas-sification. Darwinian classification requests the consid-eration of two criteria—similarity

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