Species delimitation based on diagnosis and monophyly, and its importance for advancing mammalian taxonomy

Species delimitation based on diagnosis and monophyly, and its importance for advancing mammalian taxonomy

A recently proposed taxonomic classification of extant ungulates sparked a series of publications that criticize the Phylogenetic Species Concept (PSC) claiming it to be a particularly poor species concept. These opinions reiteratively stated that (1) the two fundamental elements of the "PSC&qu...

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Main Authors: Eliécer E. Gutiérrez, Guilherme S. T. Garbino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Press, PR China 2018-09-01
Series:Zoological Research
Subjects:
Alpha taxonomy
Phylogenetic Species Concept
Species concepts
Taxonomic inertia
Taxonomic inflation
Online Access:http://www.zoores.ac.cn/EN/abstract/abstract3877.shtml

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