darth pike;2850840; said:
No, that part of your statement is not true. It is morphology and the desire of taxonomists to name new species that is causing a proliferation of species. The use of DNA to classify cichlids is very new and a science that is still in it's infancy. The gentic map of CA cichlids has not been mapped out entirely. So far it's only a couple genes, such as the cytochrome b gene, that has been focused on, for the molecular side of taxonomy. Something that wouldn't even support seperating a midas and an RD as seperate species.
DNA will eventually determine things, but not given the current state of knowledge.But I really beleive quite the opposite of the current trend ----For example: DNA is going to show that a midas cichlid is maybe 1 or 2 species, not the 7-8 it is now and the 50 or so species that it might become.
