Disruptions Caused by Changing Taxonomy and Ways of Reconciling

[jasonhernandez74]

@choess

“Can you give me three examples of species that are now separated only by genetics?”

I can give you three examples of statements made on another current thread:

@cooperj

Sequence data often show that what we thought were single widely distributed species are actually multiple related cryptic species.

@cooperj

Sometime members of a complex can be macroscopically identical (and sometimes even microscopically identical)

@cooperj

It is very hard to shift observer’s from their ‘pre-molecular’ concepts and names used in guide books.

I can start with red Russula, that’s one example. If it was possible to search comments on observations, I could come up with more by filtering for the taxon “fungi” and the comment containing “sequence” – as in a mycologist commenting that a “sequence” is what it would take to get them to agree to a species-level ID.