Posted by:
eksnek
at Sat Dec 12 10:27:59 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by eksnek ]
Thanks for the informative post.
I guess for my own sanity, I still need to decide to whether or not to consider gloydi a valid ssp. So far, i think that a natural variation of colors/pattern of plains hogs from different locations is not enough to to convince me that it is a different ssp. Plus, selective breeding in captivity alters blotch counts, shape of blotches, color etc...Being that i am not a locality fanatic, breeding hogs of the same ssp. from locales does not bother me. I am only concerned with mixing subspecies and species.
On the other hand, if the pure plains and pure "gloydi" have any scale variation then i would be more inclined to recognize gloydi as a seperate ssp. Do you know if there is any?
Regards,
Kenny
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