egyptiandan said:Hi George,
That is the HUGEST can of worms right now. We'll get into the species first. With all the DNA work done recently, there will definately be at least 2 species of greeks and maybe 4. The North African greeks will definately be a seperate species from the European and Middle eastern greeks. The European and Middle eastern greeks maybe further seperated into 3 species.
They have gone crazy in recent years elevating all subspecies to species rank, thats what prompted all the DNA work. On to subspecies.
With the North Africans there have been 6 named subspecies, that will at some point in time be dropped to 5 at most. There are,
T.g.graeca
T.g.soussensis
T.g.marokkensis
T.g.whitei
T.g.nabeulensis
T.g.cyrenaica
T.g.marokkensis and whitei will be lumped together and nabeulensis was already named before Highfield named it with the name mauritanica, so mauritanica takes presidence
I will get to the European and Middle eastern subspecies when I get back home.
Danny