[Taxacom] New paper: Ruggiero et al. "A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms"

[Tony Rees]

I note that (class) Aves has now been subsumed into class Reptilia for the
first time - brave or inevitable??

- Tony

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Kenneth Kinman <kinman at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Stephen,                         My biggest problem with this
> classification (and many others) is that the subtaxa within a taxon are
> alphabetically arranged, which automatically and immediately affects their
> naturalness from the start.  Paleognathae is thus placed after Neognathae,
> and worse yet Aves is placed before all the other reptiles.  The Superclass
> Angiospermae is a mess, which for some reason they only classify as a
> single Class.  Therefore, the subtaxa are an unnatural mess.  Although I
> nitpick about the details of the cladistic classifications of angiosperms,
> at least they are fairly natural (even with their unnatural rejection of a
> few very natural and useful taxa).                              Neomycota
> is listed as Dikarya, so it comes before Eomycota.  And they don't even
> mention the name Eumycota (which has always been more informative than
> "Fungi").  The mammal orders Cingulata and Pilosa aren't listed together at
> all, and how many non-mammalogists even know what animals those taxa
> include?  And totally separating Archaebacteria from their relatives
> Posibacteria is a horrible oversight that has plagued classifications for
> well over 20 years.
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> > Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:11:57 -0700
> > From: stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz
> > To: Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu; tonyrees49 at gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [Taxacom] New paper: Ruggiero et al. "A Higher Level
>  Classification of All Living Organisms"
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> > The problem with it being "followed in future by both ITIS and Catalogue
> of Life" is that new developments, based on scientific evidence, will not
> be considered (at least not until some big revised version of the present
> paper is published). So, bioinformatics and science part ways for a while.
> It is really just a case of "choose your own classification", and if you
> wish to choose to follow Ruggiero et al.'s paper, you can, but there may be
> better alternatives.
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> > Stephen
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> > On Thu, 9/7/15, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >  Subject: [Taxacom] New paper: Ruggiero et al. "A Higher Level
> Classification of All Living Organisms"
> >  To: "taxacom" <Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> >  Received: Thursday, 9 July, 2015, 12:52 PM
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> >  Dear Taxacomers,
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> >  Since I did not see this mentioned on Taxacom earlier
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> >  it), list members may be interested to know that Michael
> >  Ruggiero et al.'s
> >  paper "A Higher Level Classification of All Living
> >  Organisms" has been out
> >  in PLOS One since 20 April 2015, the link is here:
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> http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
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> >  This is an internally consistent treatment of "all" extant
> >  taxa down to the
> >  level of Order (in most cases), to be followed in future by
> >  both ITIS and
> >  Catalogue of Life I understand. For those interested in
> >  going further to
> >  the level of family, I have come across a spreadsheet with
> >  the latter
> >  information prepared by the same authors (possibly slightly
> >  earlier
> >  version) labelled "GGI family data" at http://ggi.eol.org/downloads .
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> >  Of course the above treatments do not include fossil
> >  orders/families but
> >  maybe these will be in scope at some point in the future
> >  (??)
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> >  Hoping this is of interest to at least some Taxacom
> >  readers,
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> >  Best regards - Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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