Der lange angekündigte Artikel gegen die Umbenennungen der Myrmicinen-Gattungen durch Ward et al. (2015) ist (endlich!) in Insectes Sociaux erschienen (online).Insectes Sociaux, pp 1-6, First online: 19 March 2016
http://link.springer.com/article/10.100 ... 016-0467-1 Banning paraphylies and executing Linnaean taxonomy is discordant and reduces the evolutionary and semantic information content of biological nomenclature von B. Seifert, A. Buschinger, A. Aldawood, V. Antonova, H. Bharti, L. Borowiec, W. Dekoninck, D. Dubovikoff, X. Espadaler and 13 more
Die Autoren: B. Seifert
bernhard.seifert@senckenberg.de (1) A. Buschinger (2) A. Aldawood (3) V. Antonova (14) H. Bharti (4) L. Borowiec (5) W. Dekoninck (6) D. Dubovikoff (7) X. Espadaler (18) J. Flegr (15) C. Georgiadis (8) J. Heinze (9) R. Neumeyer (10) F. Ødegaard (16) J. Oettler (9) A. Radchenko (19) R. Schultz (1) M. Sharaf (3) J. Trager (11) A. Vesnić (12) M. Wiezik (13) H. Zettel (17)
Adressen der Autoren:1. Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany
2. Reinheim, Rossbergring, Germany
3. College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
14. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
4. Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, India
5. Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wroclaw, Wrocław, Poland
6. Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
7. Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
18. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
15. Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
8. Department of Biology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
9. Department of Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
10. Probsteistrasse 89, Zurich, Switzerland
16. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway
19. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine
11. Shaw Nature Reserve of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Gray Summit, MO, USA
12. Laboratory for Evolution and Entomology, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
13. Department of Applied Ecology, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia
17. Museum of Natural History Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Als Mitautor hoffe ich, bald Zugriff auf den Text zu haben um Einzelheiten daraus posten und PDFs versenden zu können. Aus der letzten Fassung des Manuskripts füge ich hier schon mal unsere Schlussfolgerung ein:
ConclusionFinally and after all argumentation on operational, logical and evolutionary reasons, we would add:
There is no regulation in the current edition of ICZN demanding a naming of genera within big clades in a way that paraphylies 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”. We propose a pragmatic, consensus-based use of phylogenies in taxonomy.
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