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lbenton
at Sat Jul 10 15:38:37 2010 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by lbenton ]
Here's a question..... Where are pure thayeri found in the wild? Does anyone think thayeri interbreed with other species or subspecies???????
There is not an easy answer to that, and I have seen some WC animals from areas that could be called intergrades with thayeri and alterna, plus I have no doubt that many other "odd" populations exist but are not sampled. And I think that thayeri are a population that arose from some convergence anyway and are in that sense a hybrid population of some ancestral mexicana groups. This would in a way explain the great deal of variability found in them, at least to me it does... ----- ___________________________ Herp Conservation Unlimited
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