Overall, I think genus and species should be rather simple and useful. While mexicana are polymorphic, they are still mexicana.



When I found the first black thayeri, I said, it smells like a mexicana. It did! hahahahahahahahahahaha and that is true.



As science gets more and more complicate and gets inside the animals cells, I think new catagroies need to be coined to show evolutionary relationships.



Like with getula, the groups that may gain new species names, ARE STILL getula. They are more alike eachother then they are alike any other snakes. So why make them different species. Make them different evolutionary stock, a new name or something other then species.



I think we should be able to look up a kingsnake like these different getula and have the scientific name tell us they are kingsnakes(lampropeltis) and what type of kingsnake(getula). Then if we wanted to investigate farther, nave other catagories like the old subspecies or something that tells us they are different. Did I do something nasty by bringing up something old like subspecies?



How about changing the difinition of subspecies to include DNA ranking. Cheers

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