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English
Etymology
From sub- + genus.
Pronunciation
Noun
subgenus (plural subgenera or subgenuses)
- (taxonomy) A subdivision of a genus.
2012, Fritz Taylor, The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles, page 156:Any hope that the pierines would help to define “the level at which r-K phenomena should be sought has been dashed: apparently species groups (or subgenera, or splitters' genera) are r- or K-selected in the holarctic, whereas in Tatochila the same amount of differentiation is found among populations in a complex in which the process of speciation has not yet been completed.
2015 December 17, “Genetics, Morphology, Advertisement Calls, and Historical Records Distinguish Six New Polyploid Species of African Clawed Frog ( Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:Using this approach, a recent study that included genetic data from four of the new species described here proposed that tetraploidization occurred at least once in subgenus Silurana and once in subgenus Xenopus, octoploidization occurred at least three times in subgenus Xenopus, and that dodecaploidization occurred at least three times in subgenus Xenopus [21 ].
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Pronunciation
Noun
subgenus n (genitive subgeneris); third declension
- (New Latin) subgenus
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).