Daniel, There was a SACC proposal on this in 2006: http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~remsen/SACCprop243.html The change to sicki was rejected at that time. (Things seem to be far from clear, actually...) Recognizing Phalaenopsis is largely a matter of choice, I think. The data suggest that New World pygmy owls are a monophyletic group - many have been sampled, hence this result is ...


