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Vertical classification

vertical classification

(Science: zoology) classification which stresses common descent and tends to unite ancestral and descendant groups of a phyletic line in a single higher taxon, separating them from contemporaneous taxa having reached a similar grade of evolutionary change. Compare: horizontal classification.


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Subspecies comparison of the Genus: Corucia

... The green portion can be of various shades. The mid body bands are vertical to a twenty degree forward slope as compared to Corucia zebrata ... summation, head scales are not the best indicator of Corucia subspecies classification. It takes a trained eye and much close up viewing to get an ...

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by Brian - LCRC
Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:15 pm
 
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subspecies comparision of the Genus: Corucia

... The green portion can be of various shades. The mid body bands are vertical to a twenty degree forward slope as compared to Corucia zebrata ... summation, head scales are not the best indicator of Corucia subspecies classification. It takes a trained eye and much close up viewing to get an ...

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by Brian - LCRC
Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:06 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: subspecies comparision of the Genus: Corucia
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