Re: cf. vs. aff.

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>]

Zeco (great name),

Your idea of a subspecies would be considered a species by many "splitters".

Mike Wise

"José J. V. Carvalho" wrote:

> In ornithology the concept of subspecies is yet much used while in botany
> very few taxonomists used it at the beginning of the century, preferring the
> concepts of varieties and forms to describe morphological differences. In
> the discussions in our ornithological club I used to say that once any given
> population differs genetically from another, if these differences are
> visible morphologically, we call the population a subspecies, if we would
> group with the others, no matter how great are the genetic differences.
>
> Zeco
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