[Taxacom] Now 2 species/genera in Placozoa...

[Tony Rees]

Hi Stephen,

>From my (limited) comprehension of the molecular data, the 2 presently
described species are just representatives of 2 very distinct molecular
groupings, see diagram at
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/figure?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2005359.g003

On a purely hypothetical basis, I do not see why a newly described species
could not be placed in its own genus or any other desired higher taxon
(even kingdom), if that is used as a proxy for its claimed morphological or
genetic distinctiveness.

Regards - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees


On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 08:22, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:

> I don't agree with putting the new species in a new genus! Genera cannot
> be correlated consistently with degree or "depth" of divergence, and really
> only serve to separate convenient monophyletic groups, but there is no gain
> in separating two species into two separate genera.
>
> Stephen
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 6/8/18, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: [Taxacom] Now 2 species/genera in Placozoa...
>  To: "taxacom" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
>  Received: Monday, 6 August, 2018, 10:09 AM
>
>  In case anypne interested missed it, there
>  are now 2 described
>  species/genera in Placozoa, doubling
>  the size of that curious phylum:
>
>
> http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2005359
>
>  They still all look the same,
>  apparently, but that's another issue.
>
>  Regards - Tony
>
>  Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
>  https://about.me/TonyRees
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