Talk:Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

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Thank you JoJan for doing this (and for letting me know about it.) I feel this is an excellent addition both to the project and to the encyclopedia as a whole. I agree with your suggestions for how to entitle both this one, and the other new article you would create by moving the Ponder and Lindberg taxonomy to become its own article. As for the taxonomy itself, it will take me some time to get a feel for it, but I think it is an interesting new approach. Invertzoo (talk) 00:00, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Interesting but I find it presumptious and misleading to state "a step closer to reflecting the actual evolutionary history of the phylum Mollusca" since 'actual evolutionary history' is guesswork and unproved theory, and is not likely to be known to science in any of our lifetimes. It would be more appropriate to say something like "a step closer to reflecting the presumed evolutionary history ..." or "commonly held theories of evolutionary history ..." Wikiphobe (talk) 15:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)