subspecies

[A Mitchell]

Bill Shear <BILLS at HSC.EDU> wrote:

<snipped>

>A few people still try to name sympatric subspecies, a logical
>impossibility.  This doesn't always get caught on the way to publication.
>Of course, you can argue about what constitutes sympatry.
>

I don't see that sympatric subspecies are logically impossible.  Sympatric
"host races" are well documented.  When there is evidence for heritability
of host preference and consequently a degree of reproductive isolation,
such populations are as deserving of subspecific status as any allopatric
populations.


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