Yes, Emilio, i do live in the only known biosphere in the universe, and i do know folks are doing
all sorts of things with their genetic sequencing work - but can you come up with a good example of
a taxa or taxonomic group which has been "reworked" in light of genetic findings - and has this (and
similar revisions) been widely accepted by the rest of Malacological community??
Cheerios,
Ross.
> Ross Mayhew wrote:
>
> > Classically, genera were defined solely on the basis of
> conchological and sometimes radular
> > charactaristics as well.  However, with the advent of
> genetical analysis, it seems inevitable that
> > some genera and other "higher order" taxa will be spit up,
> modified, or even defined at least partly
> > on the basis of this type of analysis.
> >   My question is: has this started to occur already
> (example(s)?), and if it does, how is the
> > chonchologist without access to such advanced equipment to
> "corectly" assign new species to genera??
> > Curious in Canada,
> > Ross M.

Emilio wrote:
> --
> Hello!
>  Yes Mayhew it has started long ago. Sounds like you do not
> live on the 3rd rock from the sun.
> If you dont have access to the equipment you simply do as all
> the other malacologists/conchologists
> have done in the past; group similar species under whatever
> genus you think is right. The phylogenetic
> workers using data from 12s and 16s rDNA sequences will  get to
> your stuff eventually and
> set it right if you screwed up. Many times they simply assert
> your original work.
>
> Do not worry, the molluscs keep "trucking", they do not seem to
> care a bit about name calling
> or what ethnic group they belong to.
>
> I suppose it does mess up collection labels though but not more
> so than all of the revisions
> we have to date. Do what the museums do, just keep all the
> labels in order of precedence
> with the specimen.
>
> Later,
>
> Emilio Jorge Power
>
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