Andrew Vik
Tampa, FL., USA
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Ross:

I subscribe to a few of the malacological journals (The Nautilus, Malacologia, etc.).
I can't remember reading about any taxa above species level that were erected solely on genetic
comparison.

Andrew

Ross Mayhew wrote:

> Classically, genera were defined solely on the basis of conchological and sometimes radular
> charactaristics as well.  However, with the advent of genetical analysis, it seems inevitable that
> some genera and other "higher order" taxa will be spit up, modified, or even defined at least partly
> on the basis of this type of analysis.
>   My question is: has this started to occur already (example(s)?), and if it does, how is the
> chonchologist without access to such advanced equipment to "corectly" assign new species to genera??
> Curious in Canada,
> Ross M.
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