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I also like it because given that we don't deal with species, and given 
the ontological ambiguity on species in general, I would minimze 
reliance on this name on our code.

Michel

On 28/10/12 16:57, Cantino, Philip wrote:
> Kevin, 
> What do you think of Mike Keesey's suggestion?  It looks fine to me. 
> Phil 
>  
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Mike Keesey wrote: 
>  
>> 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 
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