The International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature was established to encourage and facilitate the development and use of, and communication about,

phylogenetic nomenclature Phylogenetic nomenclature is a method of nomenclature for taxa in biology that uses phylogenetic definitions for taxon names as explained below. This contrasts with the traditional approach, in which taxon names are defined by a '' type'', which ...

. It organizes periodic scientific meetings and is overseeing the completion and implementation of the

PhyloCode The ''International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature'', known as the ''PhyloCode'' for short, is a formal set of rules governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Its current version is specifically designed to regulate the naming of clades, leaving the ...

History and meetings

The International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature was established in the first international phylogenetic nomenclature meeting, which convened in the

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

, in

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, on July 6–9, 2004. In the second meeting (2006), rules concerning the choice of name for crown clades were discussed, along with rules to clarify the use of binomial species names in the context of

and to enhance the information content of these names (regarding the monophyly or paraphyly of the genus name, considered a prenomen, in the context of the

). It was also decided then to expand the CPN (Committee on Phylogenetic Nomenclature) from nine to twelve members. The third meeting convened at

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus in Saint John, New Brunswick. Dalhousie offe ...

in Halifax, from July 20 to 22, 2008. The editors of the Companion Volume presented a progress report, and a demonstration of the RegNum on-line registration database was given. Both of these are important to the society because they are required to implement the

. Other discussions at the meeting covered the problem of hybrids in rank-based and

, phyloinformatics, and teaching

References

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