Banning paraphylies and executing Linnaean taxonomy is discordant and reduces the evolutionary and semantic information content of biological nomenclature
2016
Abstrakt
There is no regulation in the current edition of ICZN demanding a naming of genera within big clades in a way that para- phylies are removed. No one is forced to follow the suggestions of Ward et al. (2015) and we ask that myrmecologists not too hastily adopt this proposal only for the reason that it is the newest variant of a phylogenetic system.
As Felsenstein (2001) put it, phylogenies are central, but ''it is nearly irrelevant how they are then used in taxonomy''. Knowledge of cladogenesis directs us to recognize which taxa could be constructed and knowledge of anagenesis is needed to recognize which taxa should be constructed.
We propose a pragmatic, consensus-based use of phylogenies in taxonomy.