@fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 7 months agoWhales is whalesmander.xyzimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1352
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minus-squareanamelinkEnglish1•7 months ago I am simply accepting cladistics classification as valid. Obviously you are not, since fish are not considered a monophyletic group.
minus-squarewandererlinkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoBony fish (Osteichthyes) is monophyletic. However, since 2013 widely cited ichthyology papers have been published with phylogenetic trees that treat the Osteichthyes as a clade including tetrapods
Obviously you are not, since fish are not considered a monophyletic group.
Bony fish (Osteichthyes) is monophyletic.