suborders

Scientists have long split the primate order into two suborders: strepsirrhines and haplorhines.

Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that’s been at large under the chaise lounge for several weeks… 2009

Fossil whales of the suborders Mysticeti and Odontoceti are known in abundance from Miocene and Pliocene sites like the 12-15 million-year-old Shark-Tooth Hill in the Temblor Formation of California and the 5-6 million-year-old Cerro Blanco in the Pisco Formation of Peru but the whales from these sites are essentially modern.

Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt 2008

There are two suborders: Anthropoids (apes, humans, and monkeys) and Prosimians (lemurs, tarsiers, and other “premonkeys”).

C. Human Origins (4 Million to 1.8 Million Years Ago) 2001

The orders are broken down into suborders, the suborders into groups, the groups into families, and the families into series, of which thousands have been defined.

5. How plants live and grow 1991

The latter, on the contrary, separate themselves again into two families or suborders -- viz., good women and bad women.

The Winds of Chance Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

That they have diverged greatly is obvious from the manner in which species of all kinds can be classed under genera, genera under families, families under suborders, and so forth: and I can remember the very spot in the road, while in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me; and this was long after I had come to Down.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Various 1885

Orders and suborders of enzymes, they play a part in respiration, in digestion, in assimilation.

The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879

We studied three species of bats (Miniopterus schreibersii fuliginosus, Hipposideros armiger and H. pratti), representing the two suborders Yangochiroptera and Yinpterochiroptera.

BioMed Central - Latest articles Zhe Wang 2010

The order Primates consists of two major suborders: the Prosimii and the Anthropoidea.

1. MajorityRights.com (main blog) 2010

Rather than fitting neatly inside one of the 4 beetle suborders, these insects are surprisingly old, diverging from the lineage that led to the giant suborder Polyphaga very near in time to the origin of the beetles themselves. species near a woodland pond in an old growth oak forest in upstate New York.

Myrmecos Blog 2008