Re: somthing sort of fishy

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- Mark Stephen Caponigro <msc39@columbia.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2002, James Farlow wrote:
> 
> > I'm very pleased to announce publication of the latest book in Indiana
> > University Press' paleontology series, _Gaining Ground: The Origin and
> > Evolution of Tetrapods_, by Jennifer A. Clack.  Jenny looks at the
> > fish-"amphibian" "transition" (all those quotation marks are so cladists
> > won't beat me over the head with a copy of Hennig)
> 
> Shouldn't that be "fish," then?  Is there such a thing as a fish?

Sure; it's just an English vernacular term.

"Fish-tetrapod transition" might be more cladist-friendly, as well as being
perfectly valid by the traditional system. Or "rise of _Tetrapoda_", etc.

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