subspecies

[Curtis Clark]

At 03:55 PM 11/8/99 -0400, Bill Shear wrote:
>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've named sympatric subspecies: three ploidy levels in an autoploid series
that are always separable by flower size when they grow together. Because I
don't believe that there is a common biological meaning for subspecies, I
can use subspecies to point out infraspecific variation when it seems
important to do so.

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