le 13/01/05 19:39, Andy Rindsberg à [log in to unmask] a écrit :

> Harry B. wrote,
>> I third the idea, I was confused in the beginning and from what has been
> answered, sub-family, tribe, & gerna all over lap. So, why not make it
> easier on us older folk, eliminate.
>

Not a good idea.
All the taxonomic rank in Zoology bear an information.
So you can scratch any ranks which bother you, but you lose stages of
discrimination and, at the end of that process, you may have a thick soup of
genera without phylogenic perpective
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