Talk:Archamoebae
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Taxonomy: class shown containing an infraphylum?[edit]
This page shows the class Conosea containing the infraphylum Archamoebae. But shouldn't an infraphylum be higher rank that a class? Crust10 (talk) 00:24, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Crust10: Hi! What's happened here is that a former editor changed Template:Archamoebae to place Archamoebae under class Conosea instead of subphylum Conosa in 2009 (https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Archamoebae&diff=prev&oldid=625591). Oddly, he didn't fix the ranks for Archamoebae nor anything below, and he kept Mycetozoa under Conosa?? And nobody has touched any of the involved taxa since from what I can see. I'll go and revert this change so it's under subphylum Conosa again, for consistency.
- Though, part of the trouble seems to be that there is both Conosa and Conosea, which appear to be the same group but at different ranks. I don't know anything about Amoebozoa taxonomy so I don't know what's going on here personally. But in any case, thanks for pointing this out! Monster Iestyn (talk) 01:35, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you Monster Iestyn! It's remarkable this persisted for 15 years. I wonder how many such cases there are on Wikispecies in which there is a problem with a taxonomy that can be detected purely logically like this one, from the standard hierarchy (kingdom over phylum over class, etc). It would be great if someone wrote a program to systematically find such issues. Crust10 (talk) 22:08, 13 January 2024 (UTC)