Talk:Archamoebae

Taxonomy: class shown containing an infraphylum?

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)