From:    Brett J. Vickers
To:      All                 Msg #129, May-21-93 01:22PM
Subject: Re: speciation list?

Organization: University of California, Irvine
From: bvickers@net1.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
Message-ID: <2BFD47FB.19351@ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
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In article <120347@bu.edu> colby@bu-bio.bu.edu (Chris Colby) writes:
>Brett, do you have references for the fish and rats (I know of
>several new  plant species)?

I do not currently have references to cite for the speciation of fish,
however I have a couple for the case of rats.  Genus _Rattus_
currently consists of 137 species [1,2] and is known to have
originally developed in Indonesia and Malaysia during and prior to the
Middle Ages [3].  ([1] is the only source I have consulted.)

[1] T. Yosida.  Cytogenetics of the Black Rat.  University Park
    Press, Baltimore, 1980.
[2] D. Morris.  The Mammals.  Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1965.
[3] G. H. H. Tate.  "Some Muridae of the Indo-Australian region,"
    Bull. Amer. Museum Nat. Hist. 72: 501-728, 1963.

>Has anyone compiled a list of observed speciations? I list
>a couple in my FAQ, but I know that more extensive lists
>have been posted.

Supposedly, someone was going to be working on one over the summer.  I
can't remember who it was that volunteered for this task, though.

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Brett J. Vickers               Only a fool plays leapfrog with
bvickers@ics.uci.edu           a unicorn.