Talk:Variety (biology)
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The brown caiman is in excellent zoological fashion a subspecies. as such it is a bad example for explaining the term variety. Furthermore a subspecies has three parts to its name hence it is a trinominal.
- Excellent. Thank you! Peak 16:45, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
From the article:
- A variety is a recognised division of a species in botany, next below the rank of subspecies; in zoology, species are only divided into subspecies and never into varieties.
Why is this? Then it goes on to say:
- A domesticated variety of a plant is called a cultivar, while a domesticated variety of an animal is called a breed.
This contradicts the earlier sentence. Are there animal varieties or not? There certainly are breeds, and breeds can hardly be considered subspecies--poodles and Rottweilers are both Canis familiaris if I recall correctly, and can certainly produce Canis familiaris mixed-breed offspring, although they might need mechanical assistance to do so. 130.91.65.76 18:00, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
