#this is what I want from the cladotherian tag. kvetching about cladistics

[fallingsatellive]

Also, something incredibly frustrating for me:

I've said I'm a Musteloidea cladotherian, but for the most part, only experience shifts and familiarity with ailurids, procyonids, and mustelids. I've had skunk shifts, but I don't feel close to mephitids nearly to the same degree I do other musteloids. And of course they're the more distantly related of the musteloid superfamily. If only there was a taxonomic name for everything closer to red pandas than red pandas are to skunks. A sub-superfamily. I'd adopt it as my cladotype in a heartbeat. But musteloid cladotherian has to work for me because this is way too complicated to explain every time I want to describe my kintype. Labels are everything huh (sarcastic)