Is there such an abbreviation??

[Richard Jensen]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Michael Gerdes wrote:

> Richard,
>
> thanks for your reply. spp. refering to all or extant species, does this
> include those species that have been moved to other genera? such as Agrostis
> spp. would that include Apera spica-venti since it was Agrostis spica-venti
>
That's an interesting question.  My immediate response is that Agrostis
spp. would not include Apera spica-venti - the latter is no longer viewed
as a species of Agrostis and, if the move to Apera reflects information
about phylogenetic relationships (which it should), it never was a species
of Agrostis (someone just misplaced it).

Cheers,
Dick Jensen

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