Comment on Whales is whales

• lauha@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid.

  Obviously you are not, since fish are not considered a monophyletic group.

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  • wanderer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bony fish (Osteichthyes) is monophyletic.

    However, since 2013 widely cited ichthyology papers have been published with phylogenetic trees that treat the Osteichthyes as a clade including tetrapods

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