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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2005 16:27:43 GMT
ok - people with fulica rufescens (umm...kevin, fatslug?) do you really think they're a subspecies? ive seen so many juvenile fulica that look exactly like my f.r.
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Post by Kevin on Nov 19, 2005 16:34:42 GMT
All my fulica rufescens look exactly like one another (all 6 of them)   They look different to other small fulica Ive seen... Mike who discovered that they're a subspecies? do you know? Maybe we should look into finding it out. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2005 16:37:33 GMT
umm....i dunno ask reginald
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Post by Kevin on Nov 19, 2005 16:47:31 GMT
umm....i dunno ask reginald pm'd you. |
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Post by Paul on Nov 19, 2005 16:50:11 GMT
I wondered about this because the fulica I used to have looked exactly the same as these "rufescens". However, a stable shell variation is probably enough to make a variant. In the snail world the terms variant and subspecies get used interchangebably even though they do mean different things. To use strict general nomenclature, I would imagine rufescens is a variant rather than a subspecies.
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Post by Kevin on Nov 19, 2005 16:55:53 GMT
I wondered about this because the fulica I used to have looked exactly the same as these "rufescens". However, a stable shell variation is probably enough to make a variant. In the snail world the terms variant and subspecies get used interchangebably even though they do mean different things. To use strict general nomenclature, I would imagine rufescens is a variant rather than a subspecies. Thats what I thought, the stability of the pattern of all my ones (and everyone elses?) lead me to believe that they're a variant of fulica. |
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