Cautioning the move from morphology to molecules in the taxonomy of Metazoa: Comments on Lawley et al. (PeerJ 2021;9, e11954) and a plea for considered integration

Michael K. Brown; Mark J. Gibbons

doi:10.17159/sajs.2022/12590

Cautioning the move from morphology to molecules in the taxonomy of Metazoa: Comments on Lawley et al. (PeerJ 2021;9, e11954) and a plea for considered integration

Authors

Michael K. Brown Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3442-9601
Mark J. Gibbons Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8320-8151

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/12590

Keywords:

integrative taxonomy, molecular species description, morphological species description, crypsis

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2022-09-29

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Vol. 118 No. 9/10 (2022)

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Commentary

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Brown, M. K., & Gibbons, M. J. (2022). Cautioning the move from morphology to molecules in the taxonomy of Metazoa: Comments on Lawley et al. (PeerJ 2021;9, e11954) and a plea for considered integration. South African Journal of Science, 118(9/10). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2022/12590