Paralleling the spread of molecular sys? tematics in recent years has been growing concern over how to integrate morpholog? ical and molecular data in phylogenetic analysis (e.g., Miyamoto, 1985; Hillis, 1987; Kluge, 1989; Barrett et al., 1991; Shaffer et al., 1991; Swoffford, 1991; Donoghue and Sanderson, 1992; Bull et al., 1993b; de Queiroz, 1993; Eernisee and Kluge, 1993; Kluge and Wolf, 1993; Chippindale and Wiens, 1994; Huelsenbeck et al., 1994; Wiens and Chippindale, 1994). A powerful approach for dealing with diverse data sets involves pooling all the available data and finding a globally parsimonious solu? tion. This has been termed the combined