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Taxonomic Clarification

Posted by AaronListon on 08 Sep 2013 at 01:00 GMT

The authors use the ambiguous abbreviation "P." for four genera of Rosaceae: Prinsepia, Prunus, Pyrus and Pentactina. It takes some detective work to discover that "P. rupicola" is the genus Pentactina, which never appears in the text or tables. The only place to find the genus name is in the phylogenetic tree figure, but without the species name, so the fact that P. rupicola refers to Pentactina rupicola is never stated. The literature cited is no help, since no citation is given for the Pentactina plastome. The sequence is actually unpublished, but available in Genbank as accession JQ041763, which should have been cited. Adding to the general taxonomic confusion, the species name, Pentactina rupicola, is mispelled as Pentactina rupicala in 2 places, while the species Pyrus pyrifolia is consistently mispelled as Pyrus pyfifolia, or Pyrus pyrifoliae in the citation.

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RE: Taxonomic Clarification

AaronListon replied to AaronListon on 08 Sep 2013 at 01:18 GMT

I can't believe I forgot how to spell misspell. Next time I will follow the advise under "guidelines" and use a spell checker.

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