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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, John Cowan <jcowan@r...> wrote: > Unless things have changed recently, C. familiaris is reckoned > a separate species. Anyhow, all classifications below the species > level are a matter of degree -- and dispute. I seem to recall reading just a few hours ago that the domestic dog had recently been moved into the species of the Grey Wolf, but I can't find that page now... I get plenty of "New Guinea Singing Dog" pages though. =P At any rate, Google finds many more "Canis familiaris" than "Canis lupus familiaris", so I guess you're either right, or the development has been very recent indeed. -- Christian Thalmann