canberrabirds

hybrid rosella

To: "Stuart Harris" <>
Subject: hybrid rosella
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:48:14 +1000
Stuart.
 
There is no convention of scientific naming of individual hybrids such as this one, (in the way you sort of suggest). They are just called hybrids eg. hybrid Platycercus elegans X eximius. However if a whole hybrid population functions as a geographic intermediary, there often is.
 
Philip
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