subordo

plural subordines · plural subordos

1. biologySynonym of suborder.

   A new systematics considers, obviously, also a rearrangement of the familiae that characterize the subordines.

   1992, Geologica Romana, page 261

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   There is no reason to deny a natural sequence or to split off genera only to have to attempt later to re-insert them into the whole by means of subordos and superfamilies.

   1967, Zoologische Verhandelingen, page 32

   In contrast to Eutheria and Primates, structural and physiological similarity in fetal membrane development and placentation exists within the subordines Strepsirhini and Haplorhini.

   1977, Folia Primatologica, page 157

   The short diagnoses of the subordos, supercohors and cohors in the Oribatid system as here elaborated are as follows:[…]

   1979, Annales Historico-naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, page 280

   From all these considerations, it follows that the larval criteria in the subordines Polyarthra and Oligoarthra should be revised.

   1979, Cahiers de Biologie Marine, page 297

   He considered it very distinct and gave it equal status to the Papilionoideae, Mimosoideae, and Caesalpinioideae (which he termed subordos ‘Papilionaceae’, ‘Mimosae’ and ‘Caesalpineae’).

   2000, Advances in Legume Systematics, part 9, →ISBN, page 218

   Synonyms: suborder