[vsnet-chat 4290] re vschat 4287 on clarification...

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Taichi Kato wrote:

> The best renowned work in ornithology
>is Sibley and Monroe's classification based on DNA hybridization.
>This technique has proven that the Paradise Flycatchers (formally ordered
>after the old world fltcatchers, including the "blue") are more akin to
>crows.  If this result is widely accepted, the order name will be
>inevitably changed, though many of authorities tend to be reluctant to
>introduce the change.

...and so the circle is complete!

I of course didn't ought to continue on this "thread", cos it is OT, but I
can't resist the closure of the circle.  The person who originally asked
the question re the flycatchers was something of a helper outer on matters
nomenclatural to Charles Sibley until the latters death a couple of years ago.

Steve is also a keen believer in much of Sibley and Munroes work.  However,
as most of our matters intellectual tend to be discussed in an alehouse we
occasionally frequent, I've often forgot it all by the next day ;)

Elucidation as to the difference twixt taxonmy and nomenclature has always
been useful to me though, and if more folk understood this difference the
numerous schema that exist out there for CV pigeonholing wouldn't be such a
confusing mess.

An incipient and somewhat small webpage exists at this URL
http://vsnet.avium.org.uk/

John

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