Phylogenetic taxonomy

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 449-480

  De Queiroz, Kevin ^a   Gauthier, Jacques ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Classification; Nomenclature; Systemics; Taxon names

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001471078     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.es.23.110192.002313     Document Type: Article

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