Taxonomic Swap 82526 (Committed on 11-09-2020)

swapped in RD

Reptile Database: 21 December 2019 (Citation) | Sept 2020 RD update
Added by loarie on 11 September, 2020 20:02 | Committed by loarie on 11 September, 2020
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Dear @loarie, I don't know on what basis the current databases are not considering subsp. madagascariensis, but the global phylogeography by Hekkala et al. 2010 ( https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10592-009-9970-5.pdf ) showed a good partitioning of the whole Madagascarian subpopulations, even better than a lot of the otehr gegraphical subspecies of the continent...
Furthermore, not assigning the Madagascarian crocodyles to any subspecies is not useful and keeping the subspecies madagascariensis don't bother anyone.
Regards,
Errol.

Posted by abounabat over 3 years ago

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