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Art:
Maybe this is where we apply what I hear fequently used as Complex!
-----Original Message-----
From: Conchologists of America List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Art Weil
Sent: 27 August, 2000 6:02 PM
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Subject: Re: A systematics question
Is Easy!!!
Sub-genera goes from the top down. Super-species goes from the
bottom up.
They meet in the middle with no room to get by. Although many mollusks
are listed
in a sub-generic mode---I have yet to see one listed as part of a
Super-species.
Although both may be valid descriptions----in practise, we use
"Sub-genera".
Art
Richard White wrote:
> subgeneric names, at least as used in vertebrates, are really units
> differentiated from each other. We look at all the species in a genus and
> say, there are two groups of species here which are more like each other
than
> species in the other group, so I'll call them subgenera.
>
> With superspecies (or metaspecies) my impression is that we look at a
given
> species and say, "this species is really a group of several very closely
> related species which we didn't recognize before" so we call it a
> superspecies.
>
> An example. We usually give domesticated animals a different specific
name
> than we do their wild ancestors. This is just a convention, started
earlier
> but codified by Linnaeus. Now with the dog, we have since learned that
dogs
> were domesticated at least 3 and perhaps 4 times from the wolf ancestor,
in
> different parts of the world. What do we do now? Is each of them a
> different species? Or is the whole wolf-dog complex a
> superspecies/metaspecies? Biologically, I think calling them all Canis
lupus
> makes the most sense, but in terms of practicality, I'm sure we will
retain
> Canis familiaris for all the seperate origination events.
>
> Is that perfectly murky?
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