Abstract
Compared with Hennig’s phylogenetical systematics which has as its aim the retracing of genealogical relations between taxonomic groups, evolutionary morphological systematics is equally justified. Classifications of basic plans, morphological types, and morphofunctional systems of organisms serve as the foundation of evolutionary morphological systems. They are constructed on the basis of thorough understanding and further iteration of morphological transformation in phylogenetical branches based on the constructional pecularities of the morphofunctional systems. The evolutionary morphological approach in systematics is important especially for elaborating macrosystems dealing with vastly divergant groups where it is impossible to trace their real genealogy. The general principles of evolutionary morphological systematics are considered. A variant of the classification system of the Plathelminthes is suggested.
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Mamkaev, Y.V. (1995). An elaboration of the evolutionary morphological basis for the systematics of the Plathelminthes. In: Cannon, L.R.G. (eds) Biology of Turbellaria and some Related Flatworms. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 108. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0045-8_4
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