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RSNewton
at Thu Aug 7 23:41:38 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RSNewton ]
I criticized Kluge for dumping all of the species in his polytomy into the single genus Eryx, and said that he should have maintained the status quo. The same prudent course of action could have been followed by Utiger et al. They could have maintained the status quo (which would result in the classification of most species in the polytomy within the single genus Elaphe), instead of the destructive new arrangement of 10 different genera for a group of snakes that are closely related to each other and that are morphologically very similar.
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- Pantherophis, a preliminary review - RSNewton, Tue Aug 5 00:29:14 2003
- RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - jfirneno, Tue Aug 5 19:28:42 2003
- RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - Terry Cox, Wed Aug 6 11:34:07 2003
- RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - patricia sherman, Wed Aug 6 15:20:03 2003
- RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - WW, Thu Aug 7 03:19:24 2003
- RE: Pantherophis, a preliminary review - Matt Campbell, Thu Aug 7 11:17:37 2003
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