subfamily
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Some hematophages are well-known: For example, vampire bats in the subfamily Desmodontinae helped inspire the legendary monsters that bear their name and no one can forget blood-sucking mosquitoes and leeches.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
Researchers placed the specimen in the subfamily Mosasaurinae and named it Megapterygius wakayamaensis to recognize where it was found.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2023
Aleocharinae, with about 17,000 known species, is the largest subfamily within the Staphylinidae family.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
It describes a large and geographically widespread subfamily of African languages that make up part of the larger Niger-Congo language family.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
At the one extreme, Mandarin and its relatives, which constitute the Chinese subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family, are distributed continuously from North to South China.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The subfamilies are major subdivisions of the family, while the tribes and subtribe can contain one or more of genera, which is the classification level just above the species.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2024
Fifty-five subfamilies of kinases evolved before yeast diverged from other eukaryotes, but the tyrosine kinases evolved after yeast diverged.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Today, after several thousand years Noruz is the cornerstone of all the Iranian subfamilies being from northern China or Bulgaria.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2016
TPS subfamilies are indicated on the circumference of the circle.
From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014
It turns out that those three other subfamilies have coincident distributions, all of them tiny compared with the distribution of Malayo-Polynesian.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
