To: mlc9852
Color Pattern Diversity in a Classic "Ring Species," the Salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii
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![](http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/Shawn/Graphics/Animal%20graphics/Ensatina/oregonensis.jpg) E. e. oregonensis Henk Wallays
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![](http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/Shawn/Graphics/Animal%20graphics/Ensatina/picta%20WallaysSmaller.jpg) E. e. picta Henk Wallays
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![](http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/Shawn/Graphics/Animal%20graphics/Ensatina/Un-used%20photots/Platensis_Medium_flipped.jpg) E. e. platensis Adam Summers
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![](http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/Shawn/Graphics/Animal%20graphics/Ensatina/Ensatina%20head%20resized.jpg) E. e. xanthoptica Shawn Kucht
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![](http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/Shawn/Graphics/Animal%20graphics/Ensatina/Croceater%20Parks2.jpg) E. e. croceater Duncan Parks
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![](http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/Shawn/Graphics/Animal%20graphics/Ensatina/eschscholtzii2%20flipped.jpg) E. e. eschscholtzii William Flaxington
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![](http://bio.research.ucsc.edu/~barrylab/Shawn/Graphics/Animal%20graphics/Ensatina/klauberi.jpg) E. e. klauberi William Flaxington
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So. are the bottom left and bottom right (E. e. eschscholtzii and E. e. klauberi) the same lizard? They happen to be the 'far ends' of this particular ring that have met together.
137 posted on
01/09/2006 11:10:00 AM PST by
Antonello
(Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
To: Antonello
139 posted on
01/09/2006 11:12:27 AM PST by
mlc9852
To: Antonello
So. are the bottom left and bottom right (E. e. eschscholtzii and E. e. klauberi) the same lizard? They happen to be the 'far ends' of this particular ring that have met together. Get back to me when one of those lizards gives birth to a polar bear.
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144 posted on
01/09/2006 11:16:05 AM PST by
PatrickHenry
(ID is to biology what "Brokeback Mountain" is to western movies.)
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