Morphology is not always useful for diagnosis, and that’s ok: Species hypotheses should not be bound to a class of data. Reply to Brown and Gibbons (S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(9/10), Art. #12590)

Lawley, Jonathan W.; Gamero-Mora, Edgar; Maronna, Maximiliano M.; Chiaverano, Luciano M.; Stampar, Sérgio N.; Hopcroft, Russell R.; Collins, Allen G.; Morandini, André C.

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Morphology is not always useful for diagnosis, and that’s ok: Species hypotheses should not be bound to a class of data. Reply to Brown and Gibbons (S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(9/10), Art. #12590)

2022
By Lawley, Jonathan W. ; Gamero-Mora, Edgar ; Maronna, Maximiliano M. ; ...

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South African Journal of Science
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Lawley, Jonathan W. ; Gamero-Mora, Edgar ; Maronna, Maximiliano M. ; Chiaverano, Luciano M. ; Stampar, Sérgio N. ; Hopcroft, Russell R. ; Collins, Allen G. ; Morandini, André C.
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This paper serves as a reply to the Commentary by Brown and Gibbons (S Afr J Sci. 2022;118(9/10), Art. #12590) on our recently published paper on systematics of the moon jellyfish genus Aurelia (Lawley et al. PeerJ 2021;9, e11954)). We emphasise that we are not advocating for the routine use of molecular data alone in taxonomic diagnoses, rather that it is a valid approach in cases where, after detailed analyses, morphological features are shown to be unreliable.
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South African Journal of Science, 118(9/10)
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