In other words, by "most popular" I mean that they tend to be the most-heavily cited taxon concept in exiting biodiversity literature/datasets/information -- more so than any other Linnean rank -- so much so that even the non-Linnean-rank naming system (Phylocode) acknowledges them.
-----Original Message----- From: Nico Cellinese [mailto:ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 11:43 AM To: Richard Pyle Cc: 'Peter DeVries'; tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org; 'Paul Murray' Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] DwC Occurrence [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
I think of "species" as the most popular kind of "taxon concept". Not like strict Linnean rank sort-of species.
Good gods!! Now you send me straight to the bar! Doing so you are indeed treating 'species' as ranks, unless I am completely missing your point. If
you
think of species as taxa, the 'most popular' according tho whom?
nico
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