Dave,



Wouldn't necessarily want to call it a 'new' or separate species. It does seem to share common ancestry w/ Mexican triangulum. It may very well be a precursor species... I do see some similarities to other gulf coastal triangulum. Perhaps but only in the periphery of the known ranges of the respective ssp.'s but just as well. I truly think that mtDNA research alone will not yield conclusive results but, again, I'm just a hobbyist here. So we will probably have this question answered a time or two in the years to come.



Chris

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