Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a genus and above a species.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A subordinate genus; a section or subdivision of a genus higher than a species.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters.

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  • noun taxonomy A subdivision of a genus

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  • noun (biology) taxonomic group between a genus and a species

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ genus

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Examples

  • 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 American species which has spread down into and has outlying representatives in South America.

    IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 1914

  • 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

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Terms such as "subgenus" are quietly being phased out or at least reduced in prominence.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Terms such as "subgenus" are quietly being phased out or at least reduced in prominence.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • 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.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • 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.

    "Nothing remains. We could run when the rain slows." ellen_datlow 2009

  • Unfortunately, he did something that vertebrate paleontology usually avoids, he created a subgenus.

    "Nothing remains. We could run when the rain slows." ellen_datlow 2009

  • These Azaleas are in the genus Rhododendron, with evergreen azaleas in the subgenus Tsutsusi and deciduous azaleas in the subgenus Pentanthera.

    About Those Azaleas-My Signature Plants « Fairegarden 2009

  • 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).

    Kazakh steppe 2008

  • 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.

    Tasmanian temperate forests 2008

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  • Not to be confused with SubGenius

    October 9, 2011