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Journal of Paleontology; September 2004; v. 78; no. 5; p. 989-1013; DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078<0989:DAPFTC>2.0.CO;2
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DEVELOPING A PROTOCOL FOR THE CONVERSION OF RANK-BASED TAXON NAMES TO PHYLOGENETICALLY DEFINED CLADE NAMES, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY TURTLES

WALTER G. JOYCE1, JAMES F. PARHAM2 and JACQUES ARMAND GAUTHIER1

1 Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, <walter.joyce{at}yale.edu>, <jacques.gauthier{at}yale.edu>
2 Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley, 1101 VLSB, Berkeley 94720, <parham{at}socrates.berkeley.edu>

We present a rank-free phylogenetic nomenclature for 25 well-established ancient clades of living turtles. This is the first attempt to document fully the nomenclatural history of a clade with the intent of proposing a coherent nomenclatural system to replace the traditional rank-based nomenclature. Because of the imperative to retain connectivity to the literature for information retrieval, due consideration is given to balancing the desire to develop a consistent system against the desire to conserve traditional associations between names, taxa (i.e., clades), and characters. Novel issues and problems that emerged during this review include: the unclear name/clade association of traditional names; the creation of synonymy lists from which to choose a name; difficulties associated with selecting a single criterion for choosing among multiple ‘subjectively synonymous’ names; identifying authorship for a converted traditional name; and the potential loss of nomenclatural information due to ‘functional homonyms.’ This work may provide a useful road map to those intent on converting their traditional rank-based nomenclatures to explicitly phylogenetic nomenclatures under the precepts of the PhyloCode.




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