subgenus
IPA: sʌbdʒˈinʌs
noun
- (taxonomy) A subdivision of a genus.
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Examples of "subgenus" in Sentences
- Terms such as "subgenus" are quietly being phased out or at least reduced in prominence.
- Unfortunately, he did something that vertebrate paleontology usually avoids, he created a subgenus.
- These Azaleas are in the genus Rhododendron, with evergreen azaleas in the subgenus Tsutsusi and deciduous azaleas in the subgenus Pentanthera.
- There are no endemic genera; endemics are at the subgenus and species level only (for example, the subgenera Santolina and Kittariana of the genus Tanacetum).
- Morphological similarities placing D. valgum in the same subgenus with non-predatory dung-feeding species suggest a major and potentially rapid behavioural shift from coprophagy to predation.
- The whitetail deer -- using the word to designate a group of deer which can neither be called a subgenus with many species, nor a widely spread species diverging into many varieties -- is the only North
- Regardless, Greg Paul erected the subgenus Giraffatitan, and placed the African species, B. brancai in it, so that the species became properly known by the rather unwieldy name Brachiosaurus (Giraffatitan) brancai.
- The whitetail deerusing the word to designate a group of deer which can neither be called a subgenus with many species, nor a widely spread species diverging into many varietiesis the only North American species which has spread down into and has outlying representatives in South America.
- Dry eucalypt forests are very open, typically dominated by peppermint eucalypts (subgenus Monocalyptus series Piperitae) more than 5 meters in height, with a scattered layer of small xerophytic species, such as Acacia, Allocasuarina, and Exocarpos spp. in the understory Eucalyptus amygalina, E. pulchella, and E. viminalis are all found in this ecoregion.
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