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Posted by Terry Cox on January 27, 2003 at 16:36:58:
In Reply to: Good story Alan . . .> posted by terryp on January 27, 2003 at 09:14:27:
I think Pantherophis will stand the test of time. It's been a long time coming. It was happening...just waiting for someone to do the work. I'm sure American rats will now reside in Pantherophis for a long time, except the ones from furthest south that may get their own genus. I'm not sure why flavirufa didn't make it into Pantherophis. I sure would like to see the paper that describes the new genera.
You're right about breeders being stung by taxonomic changes that affects what they are breeding. I can't think of a better example than that with Pantherophis guttata guttata and P. g. emoryi. While breeding them and crossing them makes intergrades now of the subspecies of guttata, renaming the two full sps. of P. guttata and P. emoryi would make our crosses hybrids. Still the same snakes, but we must be aware of that before we do the breeding, so we can still like the snakes even if taxonomic changes do happen.
I will still like my creations even if they become hybrids some day. I think of my guttata intergrade line as a sort of super corn snake. It's a great animal bred for the best possible characteristics for a pet snake, and doesn't have anything except guttata and emoryi in it. And that's how I'll sell the offspring if any. Later,
TC
