superorder
IPA: supɝɔrdɝ
noun
- (taxonomy) A taxonomic category below subclass and above order.
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Examples of "superorder" in Sentences
- Some call it a subclass, others a superorder.
- The Echinacea are a superorder of sea urchins.
- The Atelostomata are a superorder of sea urchins.
- A clade is not the same as a Subclass or a Superorder.
- Ostariophysi is the second largest superorder of fish.
- Octopodiformes is a superorder of the subclass Coleoidea.
- They are primitive members of the superorder Caenogastropoda.
- The Acariformes are the most diverse of the two superorders of mites.
- Cocciliniformia was previously designated as a superorder but is no longer.
- Cocciliniformia was previously designated as a superorder, but is no longer.
- But I trust lessons have been learned, and the gameday thread and recap will thus be uncontaminated by creatures of the superorder Elopomorpha.
- "We certainly do not want such a superorder, and if there is to be one large order, its price should not exceed some Kc40bn or Kc50bn," Proubek said.
- Ancestral elephant shrews were members of a “superorder” or “cohort” of beasts called Afrotheria that evolved in Africa more than 100 million years ago.
- Since Linnaeus, taxonomists have added the categories phylum and family, along with numerous subdivisions such as subclass, superorder, subfamily, subspecies, and others.
- Although many have been found in the fossil record, paleontologists expect that they have barely scratched the surface of the vast superorder that the dinosaurs encompassed.
- The study also bolsters recent research suggesting that bats are more closely related on the tree of evolution to horses, dogs, cows, moles and dolphins -- all members of the superorder Laurasiatheria -- than humans, monkeys, flying lemurs and mice, which belong to the Euarchontoglires superorder.