Definitionn. (biology) a taxonomic category below a family
Last update: August 6, 2015
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Hence it is made the type of a distinct subfamily, the Myrmecobiinae, as distinct from the Dasyurinae, which includes all the other members of the family. [Please select]
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--On Some New Parasitic Insects of the Subfamily Encystinæ. [Please select]
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The zoaria of this subfamily are never dendritic but form gelatinous masses which, except in _Australella_, are cushion-shaped or sack-like. [Please select]
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Tordoff concludes, therefore, that the carduelines are not fringillids but ploceids, their closest affinities being with the ploceid Subfamily Estrildinae. [Please select]
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Subfamily Troglodytinae: WRENS Small brown birds, more or less barred with darkest brown above, much lighter below. [Please select]
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The one representative of the distinctly American subfamily of gnatcatchers (Polioptilinae) that we have, is a small blue-gray bird, whitish below. [Please select]
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Like those of all the members of this subfamily, the eggs are blue, spotless, and commonly brilliantly glossy. [Please select]
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The carduelines are placed as the Subfamily Carduelinae in the Family Ploceidae. [Please select]
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Relatively few investigations, however, involving the comparative myology of the leg have been undertaken at family and subfamily levels. [Please select]
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To be sure _Spiza_ is in many ways an aberrant member of the group to which it is now assigned (Subfamily Richmondeninae). [Please select]
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The estrildines, serologically, do not closely resemble _Passer_, Subfamily Passerinae, although recent classifications place these two subfamilies in the Family Ploceidae. [Please select]
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