Why do you think that Crustacea and Hexapoda are used instead of Pancrustacea. I think that Pancrustacea better represents the relationship between the two groups which seems to be a major aspect of taxonomy. If it’s just due to the group not being accepted yet, do you think it should be?

Are you referring specifically to iNat’s handling of these taxa? Or is it a more general question?

changes to the base of the tree that impact 10s of millions of down stream observations (e.g. 42M hexapod observations) put a load on the site that we’re currently not well equipped to handle. While our taxonomic reference for animal phyla (WoRMs) now considers Insects to be Crustacea, we’re deviat…

Whilst Hexapoda sit inside Crustacea (known since 2011 or so), I don’t think one should rename Crustacea into Pancrustacea. The former name doesn’t lose validity. The technical question concerning Inat has already been answered, I believe for the same reason birds won’t be included into reptiles any…

I actually didn’t know that it was accepted by any taxonomy! As for iNaturalist I get that it would be a difficult thing to do. Is there any sort of plan so to how to implement such a change?

I kind of overlooked the naming, and I definitely agree with you on that, although I would say that if it’s possibly for the hexapods to be moved into Crustacea, then it should be done. While I don’t know as much with the birds and reptiles, that does seem like something that should be kept separate…

There are two approaches to cope with things being found to be nested in other clades. One is to split the larger group in several smaller ones until each of them isn’t paraphyletic anymore. This is easy when the relatives of the ancestors of the smaller group are all extinct, e.g. with Amphibia: T…

I think with the birds and reptiles it just feels nice (when forced to choose between the two options) to group in birds, to destroy Reptilia just to not include birds seems counterintuitive, because instead of simplifying things while also keeping them monophyletic, it just leads to the fairly simp…

Pancrustacea over Hexapoda and Crustacea

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eleodesthermopolis October 31, 2023, 7:16pm 4

I just mean in general.

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Pancrustacea over Hexapoda and Crustacea

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