Aineo wrote:You are back to the species level with your wolf example as well as your flora example.
Ignore the wolf and dog one for a second, the point of that argument was to show what a sub-species is. You are misquoting me.
Did you look at my example up top? I will quote it a THIRD time:
Boraas (1983) reported the induction of multicellularity in a strain of Chlorella pyrenoidosa (since reclassified as C. vulgaris) by predation. He was growing the unicellular green alga in the first stage of a two stage continuous culture system as for food for a flagellate predator, Ochromonas sp., that was growing in the second stage. Due to the failure of a pump, flagellates washed back into the first stage. Within five days a colonial form of the Chlorella appeared. It rapidly came to dominate the culture. The colony size ranged from 4 cells to 32 cells. Eventually it stabilized at 8 cells. This colonial form has persisted in culture for about a decade. The new form has been keyed out using a number of algal taxonomic keys. They key out now as being in the genus Coelosphaerium, which is in a different family from Chlorella.
Note that there is a change in family, which includes family, order and species. If you change any taxonomical class, all classes below that are also changed. Please, stop saying its only species based. This quote clearly states that it is family based.
Yes, family does include species. If a family changes, a species MUST change, as well as order.