Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-898730-20150817110744/@comment-1036245-20150830164530

I'm not assuming that dragons have the same "true" biology as real life, especially given all the "species" breed with each other fine. I'm giving some benefit of the doubt. Realistically any mixed pairing should produce a hybrid, but instead they produce one of either parent which is not realistic unless we assume there is a backlog of genetics already in place in every dragon (thus producing backcrosses identical or nearly so to the "species" of one of the parents).

So really trying to put any realism in terms of species/subspecies to the dragons themselves is hopeless, and I don't just mean xenowyrms. We can't look at the breeding to determine their "equivalent" real life attribution.

I don't see the naming as a good reason to merge them. I mean, there are hundreds and thousands of examples in real life of several species with the same name (American crow, carrion crow, house crow, fish crow, Torresian crow, etc. etc.)