[Taxacom] Taxing Times for Taxonomy (News story)

[Paul Kirk]

and that planet earth is populated by just animals and plants ...

Paul
a mycologist
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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] on behalf of David Campbell [pleuronaia at gmail.com]
Sent: 30 January 2012 23:18
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Taxing Times for Taxonomy (News story)

> Taxing times for taxonomy     Ottawa Citizen online  20
> January 2012  (also Edmonton Journal, 29 January 2012)

The claim in the article that a sea lily is a plant tends to confirm
the poor level of taxonomic knowledge.

--
Dr. David Campbell
Collections Assistant
The Paleontological Research Institution
1259 Trumansburg Road
Ithaca NY 14850

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