Phylogenetic Classification in Darwin's Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia

Abstract

Phylogenetic Classification in Darwin's Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia. Syst. Zool. 22:132–140.—Darwin's barnacle monograph contains an implicit phylogeny which is reflected in the classification system. In accordance with theoretical views he expresses elsewhere, the system has no polyphyletic taxa, but it does have paraphyletic ones. The classification also takes into account degree of difference, gaps, convenience and tradition. His general advocacy of genealogy as the basis of classification never took the form of modern cladistic views.