I'm a lumper too and although these "lines" have been around for many years, I haven't seen any evidence they are truly different. But I wouldn't want to make a difinitive statement on that without a bit of research. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, there has been no taxon management group formed for vents yet. So if anyone is interested.... I doubt it would take more than a couple days of email "leg-work" to get to the bottom of this question and post it in a taxon management plan for all to easily reference in the future.
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