New petrel species?

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New petrel species?

Postby Nakilad » Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:35 pm

I'm not sure if this has appeared in earlier posts, but I'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts. How legit is using phenotype alone to define a species?
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197766
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Re: New petrel species?

Postby Neil Fitzgerald » Tue Jul 10, 2018 12:28 pm

There is a thread in the Taxonomy section: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7823

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