I prefer to throw away the rigidity of useless Hennigian dogma rather than the useful Linnaean system. So do a majority of zoologists world wide. Gauthier and deQueiroz have been advocating for years that biologists do away with the Linnaean ranks, but their suggestion has not been widely accepted.

Paraphrasing R. F. Inger of the Field Museum, ", despite its limitations and despite our occasional faulty applications, is a that has proved useful and I think we will continue to use it" (Mayr 1982).

Reference
Mayr, E. 1982. Of What Use Are Subspecies? Auk 99:593-595

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