Mood: irritated
Topic: Articles
For all of you that have worked hard to learn your species names, it could be out the window. New changes have been proposed to change North American families of Bufo to Anaxyrus and Rana to Lithobates, among some other changes. Here is the link: CHANGES TO THE TAXONOMY OF NORTH AMERICAN AMPHIBIANS. Personally I feel a toad by any other name would smell...about the same, but you know what I mean. I'm sure this will not happen without very careful consideration, but I still don't have to like it. Wolves are Canus in the Old and New worlds, same as many other families including Homo. Are we going to be renamed North American Homo sapiens? Let me know what you think. Click on "post your comment".
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