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Arthropod phylogeny and ‘basal’ morphological structures

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Arthropod Relationships

Part of the book series: The Systematics Association Special Volume Series ((SASS,volume 55))

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The objective of this paper is to show that the relationships between arthropodan higher taxa are most reliably revealed by ‘basal’ arthropodan structures, such as head and body segmentation, and leg-derived appendages (mouthparts, legs, genitalia, wings, and their articulations). For reliable assessment, the character transformations should be compared throughout all arthropodan groups, extinct and extant. Phylogeny of the higher taxa (Subphyla, Classes, Orders, and Superfamilies) has been mainly approached in two different ways. In this paper I loosely term these approaches the ‘restrictive’ and ‘historical’, respectively.

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Kukalová-Peck, J. (1998). Arthropod phylogeny and ‘basal’ morphological structures. In: Fortey, R.A., Thomas, R.H. (eds) Arthropod Relationships. The Systematics Association Special Volume Series, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4904-4_19

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