and one of the most ironic features of the present debate as a matter of fact is that steve gould, who's been the most vocal exponent of the punctuationist view, and indeed of the view that there's something really quite special about the specification of them, his own field work is concerned with a mollusc snail called serin erm from the west indies, which, when it was first described by anatomists, was classified into several genera and several hundreds of different species.