[Taxacom] Expressing synonymy as a schematic

[Kevin Tilbrook]

What a superb illustration of the wranglings inherent in the taxonomic method.
The figure has just gone into a talk I'm giving to school kids tomorrow morning about Taxonomy and Classification.
(The fact that it is a 'beer drinker' - yeah I know it eats the yeast - is a bonus!)
Thank you
Kevin

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________________________________
 From: "Tony.Rees at csiro.au" <Tony.Rees at csiro.au>
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu 
Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 10:27
Subject: [Taxacom] Expressing synonymy as a schematic
 
Dear Taxacomers,

Searching for information on a particular taxon name on the web, I happened upon a nice schematic which I thought well expressed the complex taxonomic and nomenclatural history for a species of nematode, Panagrellus redivivus, on p.23 (Figure 2) of the following paper by Ferris, 2009:

http://plpnemweb.ucdavis.edu/nemaplex/FerrisPublications/pdf%20files/165Ferris2009.pdf

(a taxon which has moved through 8 genera and 21 treatments, under a variety of epithets, at last count according to this diagram).

I was thinking that this is a particularly neat method for expressing such changes through time but was also wondering if readers have other suggestions or examples as well.

Regards - Tony

Tony Rees
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CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric?Research,
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