Abstract:New species are often being described soon after their discovery at just a single site -and will appear narrowly endemic until additional populations (if any) are discovered elsewhere. The process of realizing that an initially "apparent endemic" is in reality non-endemic can be delayed if disjunct populations are redundantly described as distinct species -a risk that probably is negatively correlated with the range of morphological variation reported for the initially discovered population(s). Prompted by rec… Show more
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