On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Cantino, Philip < cantino at ohio.edu > wrote: > Dear CPN members, > > It has taken a couple of weeks, but Kevin and I have finally worked through > David's suggestions, some of which we have led to changes in the attached > revision of the proposals I initially sent you on Sept. 24. I have inserted > our responses below after each of David's comments. > > I would like to take a vote on this set of changes soon (i.e., the set of > proposals I sent you on Sept. 24 plus the modifications contained here). If > David or anyone else has further comments, please send them to the listserv > by the end of the end of the day on Sunday (Oct. 28). If there is no > further discussion calling for more changes, I think we could go ahead and > vote on these starting on Monday. If anyone feels this is not sufficient > time to review the changes, please let me know and we can delay the vote by > a few days. Thanks for putting this together, Kevin and Phil. The changes look good to me. There is one minor tweak I would suggest in the Glossary: CURRENT: taxon (taxa). A taxonomic group of organisms. In this code, taxa may be clades or species, but only clade names are governed by this code. PROPOSED REVISION: taxon (taxa). A group of organisms or species considered a potential recipient of a scientific name. Taxa may be clades or species, but only clade names are governed by this code. Definitely an improvement, but I don't think it's necessary to explicitly mention species here. I suggest this wording: taxon (taxa). A group of organisms considered a potential recipient of a scientific name. This code only governs the names of monophyletic taxa (clades). T. Michael Keesey http://tmkeesey.net/
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