Posted by:
Joe Forks
at Sat Nov 21 12:45:34 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Joe Forks ]
>>with Thayeri, there may be a tight relationship in certain but not all locals, with triangulum. I.E. intergration zones. But not all locals, I.E. high elevation populations.
That's exactly right Frank.
>>Not enough animals.
Again, exactly right. Poorly sampled from the known range, and vast expanses of geography with NO samples. That is a significant fact, but even the existing samples are poorly understood.
No classification system will EVER adequately convey how these animals evolved, mixed, re-evolved in a changed environment, and mixed with something else over thousands or in some cases millions of years.
Alterna, thayeri, and triangulum have a long history of mixing, and back breeding. Alterna and thayeri are still mixing today.
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