Quote Originally Posted by GradStudentLeper View Post
Well, honestly I dont consider subspecies to be valid anyway. I think the biological species concept is a load of bull, and instead use the evolutionary species concept. T. elegans is so wide ranging that I am pretty sure that based upon a lack of gene flow, and specialization within parts of its range many populations need to be elevated to species status. However to my knowledge, a massive phylogeographic study on the genetics has not been done to bring this about.
Just curious: What is the evolutionary species concept and how is it different from the biological species concept? How does the evolutionary species concept make subspecies invalid? I don't know anything about this.