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FR
at Thu Oct 27 11:12:55 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
I think subspecies have gone the way of the dinosaur, they are extint.
Personally, I like more discriptive local terms, like subspecies or local types, like they use in other areas like plants and such.
Also, back in the seventies, A friend and I collected a gravid mearnsi(goins at the time) and its clutch contained the whole range from mearnsi to goini, to fla. king patterns.
That female was from the middle, Applachicola river, Chipola river area. Where they meet.
The actual point is, it doesn't matter what they officially call them anymore as it changes to fast and is about to change soon.
With that said, common names are much more useful and discriptive. Cheers
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