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What?!? Another namechange???
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by toddg on March 26, 2006
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I was just on the Natural Toxins Research Center web page looking for information on Southern pacifics, you know… Crotalus viridis helleri, when, to my astonishment, I found NO such rattlesnake existed! I quickly looked it up by common name and, sure enough, there it was… Southern pacific rattlesnake… under the name Crotalus QREGANUS helleri!
When did this happen!?! Is everybody else aware of this change? Shouldn’t there be some type of news bulletin regarding such changes in taxonomy? Dammit, I’m sick and tired of being bombarded with the latest news out of Iraq or the next hurricane to devastate some community! This type of news is IMPORTANT and should be made available to the general public!
Seriously, did this just happen or am I just the last to hear about it?
toddg
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RE: What?!? Another namechange???
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by toddg on March 26, 2006
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...apperantly, most of the "viridis" complex got moved over to the new "oreganus" complex.
I'm really beginning to hate Latin!
toddg
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by Phobos on March 27, 2006
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Hi:
2002 they earned species status.
They are now know as a distinct species C. helleri
see: http://sbsweb.bangor.ac.uk/%7Ebss166/Updates/Crotalinae2002.htm
Al
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RE: What?!? Another namechange???
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by toddg on March 27, 2006
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Thank you Al. That web page is four years old however, and more recent publications seem to have placed the former "viridis" group in question in the "oreganus" complex.
A quick internet search on animal taxonomy did, in fact, reveal the species “Crotalus helleri” however, the term was referenced as a synonym along with the term “Crotalus viridis helleri” when referring to Crotalus oreganus helleri.
I’m not trying to be argumentative here; I’m just to be scientifically hip!
toddg
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