Renaming Asian schilbeid families

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Renaming Asian schilbeid families

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Wang, J, B Lu, R-G Zan, J Chai, W Ma, W Jin, R-Y Duan, J Luo, RW Murphy, H Xiao, Z-M Chen, 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of five Asian schilbid genera Including Clupisoma (Siluriformes: Schilbeidae). PLoS ONE 11(1): e0145675. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145675.
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So, a new family is proposed. It's early days, but what do you think the general take-up of this will be?

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I think it's only a matter of time before this is generally accepted. I have always thought that Asian and African schilbeids are not a monophyletic group.
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