title: Toward a phylogenetic system of biological nomenclature.
abstract: Despite the widely held belief that modem biological taxonomy is evolutionary, some of the most fundamental concepts and principles in the current system of biological nomenclature are based on a nonevolutionary convention that pre-dates widespread acceptance of an evolutionary world view by more than a century. The development of a phylogenetic system of nomenclature requires reformulating these concepts and principles so that they are no longer based on the Linnean categories but on the tenet of common descent.
authors.affiliation: Kevin de Queiroz is at the Dept of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: de Queiroz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gauthier