[CPN] Art. 1.1 and the term "taxon" in the PhyloCode; PLEASE VOTE

Michel Laurin michel.laurin at upmc.fr
Sat Mar 2 10:57:31 EST 2013


On 02/03/13 15:05, David Marjanovic wrote:
> I agree with all changes, including those by Michel, except:
>
> Art. 1.1: The last sentence now reads: "However, species, whose names
> are governed by the rank-based codes, are used to define clade names in
> this code." This could be misread as saying that _only_ species are used
> to define clade names. I'd therefore prefer "are
> often/frequently/commonly used" or suchlike.
>
> The same sentence occurs in the glossary entry for "taxon", except that
> Michel forgot to change "traditional" to "rank-based".
>
> That's all. :-)
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Thanks for these comments David. I agree with them.

Michel

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