Re: Scientific Describing Of Fish
Posted: 31 Dec 2010, 01:22
This works better for invertebrates with little in the way of morphological characters (e.g. oligochaetes).racoll wrote:People always say this, but it just isn't happening. I would love to see some examples Mike? One that springs to my mind is the woeful description of three Hemidactylus geckos by Leache and Fujita (2010), but I can't think of many others.Mike Noren wrote:There is even a trend to describe fish ONLY from DNA analyses, because it is much faster than doing morphological analyses, a trend I personally consider harmful and misguided.
Here is a recently-published example. Other oligochaete examples are referred to in the text.