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that I've been meaning to try to get a concensus on.

How many in this forum now recognize and use the new taxa for Drymarchon as proposed by W. Wuster? That would be as follows:

D. couperi giving full species status to the Eastern Indigo

a D. melanurus complex including D.m.erebennus, D.m.melanurus, D.m.rubidus, D.m.orizabensis, D.m.unicolor, D.m.caudomaculatus, and D.m.margaritae

D. corais giving separate species status to the Yellowtail Cribo
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From my non-scientific, breeder only position, it makes sense to give full species status to those that have no intergradization zone.

Perhaps even caudomaculatus will get full species status eventually.

Doug T

SSAR has accepted the new Taxonomy.
That's good enough for me.

I'm in.

Can you provide a link to the minutes where that was passed? If SSAR has accepted it, then everyone else should follow. This brings up some interesting challenges for some of the various state agencies that did not recognize sub-species. Now they will find themselves protecting a species that does not even occur within 1,000 miles of their jurisdiction.
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I found this out from personal communication from a GA DNR bilogist that works with the GA indigo population.

I will contact him to see if I can get a link...or a reference of some kind.

>>I found this out from personal communication from a GA DNR bilogist that works with the GA indigo population.
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>>I will contact him to see if I can get a link...or a reference of some kind.

That's OK...don't go to a whole bunch of trouble. I assume you're talking about John...if I can't find it in SSAR's documentation, I can email him.

By the way, my position is that I support the changes and have been using the new taxonomy.
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Ralph Waldo Emerson