This is how Mayr (Populations, Species and Evolution, 1970)
defines "sympatry": "The occurrence of 2 or more populations in the same
area; more precisely, the existence of a population in breeding condition
within the crusising range of individuals of another population."

If this is what sympatric means, then what does syntopic mean? I still
don't get it. I have a feeling the 2 terms are used interchangeably by
different people.

Aydin

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:58:36 +1300, Andrew Grebneff
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Two species living together in the same habitat are sympatric. They
>may not share the same microhabitat, but can readily meet in their
>daily/nocturnal rounds.
>--
>Andrew Grebneff
>Dunedin
>New Zealand
>Fossil preparator
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