IOC 5.2 update

[Martin Cake <>]

Hi all,

Just a small correction following Dave’s comment, the new Copperback Q-T 
includes clarum plus south-western form fordianum, so yes everything west of 
the Gulf (with the possible exception of the area just across into the 
north-eastern Eyre Peninsula -  needs further clarification). Though fordianum 
wasn’t sampled in the Dolman & Joseph paper there is a fairly broad and 
well-documented intergrade with clarum in southern WA so these must be the same 
species. The error in 5.2 which listed fordianum as a questionable subspecies 
of castanotum has already been posted as a correction for 5.3 (see 
Updates-Subspecies on IOC website).

Cheers
Martin
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