Re: KillieTalk Digest V5 #290

[Brian Watters <Brian_Watters at uregina.ca>]

Gary Smith wrote:

> 
>           I was just thumbing through Wildekamp's volume 3 and came
> across something puzzleing. He considers deltaense as gulare from the
> location Warri. Is this correct?
>
> Should it be Fundulopanchax Deltaense or Fundulopanchax Gulare Warri?
> Or maybe Fundulopanchax Gulare Warri(Deltaense).
> 

What Wildekamp in Volume IV (and Lazara in KMI 4) suggests is that 
Fundulopanchax deltaense is a junior synonym of Fudulopanchax gularis 
(not gulare) and, since Fudulopanchax gularis has priority, that is the
name that should be used.

In my opinion, location names (such as "Warri") should only be used if 
you know beyond doubt that the population you have actually does come 
from a particular geographic locality.

I suppose that if you wanted to indicate that what you have is what 
used to be known as deltaense you could refer to it as Fundulopanchax 
gularis (previously deltaense), or something similar, although that 
does tend to be cumbersome.
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