International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature (PhyloCode): Version 6* - Softcover

De Queiroz, Kevin; Cantino, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138332828 ISBN 13: 9781138332829

Publisher: CRC Press, 2020

Synopsis

PhyloCode is a set of principles, rules, and recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature, a system for naming taxa by explicit reference to phylogeny. In contrast, systems, as embodied in the current botanical, zoological, and bacteriological codes, define taxa by reference to taxonomic ranks (e.g., family, genus) and types. This edition will govern the names of clades, while species names will still be governed by traditional codes. PhyloCode is designed so that it can be used concurrently with the rankbased codes. It is not meant not to replace existing systems but to provide an alternative system for governing the application of both existing and newly proposed names

Key selling features:

Provides clear regulations for implementing new guidelines for naming lineages of organisms

Incorporates expressly evolutionary and phylogentic principles

Works with existing codes of nomenclature

Eliminates the reliance on rank-based classification in favor of phylogenetic relationships

About this title

About the Author

Kevin de Queiroz is a vertebrate, evolutionary, and systematic biologist. He has worked in the phylogenetics and evolutionary biology of squamate reptiles, the development of a unified species concept and of a phylogenetic approach to biological nomenclature, and the philosophy of systematic biology. He received a B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles (1978), a M.S. in Zoology from San Diego State University (1985), and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley (1989). He was a Tilton Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences and is currently a Research Zoologist and a curator of the collection of Amphibians and Reptiles at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. He is a former president of the Society of Systematic Biologists and was the first president of the International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature.

Philip D. Cantino received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and is currently Professor Emeritus in Environmental and Plant Biology at ohio University. His primary interests are angiosperm systematics (with emphasis on the phylogeny and taxonomy of Labiatae) and phylogenetic nomenclature, an alternative to traditional biological nomenclature that is designed to name the parts of the tree of life by explicit reference to phylogeny. He is an active member of the Committee on Phylogenetic Nomenclature.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1138332828
• ISBN 13: 9781138332829
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190