Integrated Principles of Zoology 16th Edition by Cleveland Hickman,Susan Keen,Allan Larson,David Eisenhour,Helen I'Anson, Larry Roberts

Exercise 12

Explain how the use of a cladistic classification for the vertebrates produces important regroupings of the traditional vertebrate taxa (refer to Figure 23.2). Why are Agnatha and Reptilia, as traditionally recognized, inconsistent with cladistic principles