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Subgenus 

a taxonomic category of plants and animals immediately below a genus. A subgenus braces a group of species that are most closely related to one another within a genus but that do not differ so much from other species or groups of species of the genus as to constitute a separate genus. A subgenus may be represented by a single species. The plant genus Astragalus contains several subgenera, including Phaca, Caprinus, and Tragacantha. In animal taxonomy, the genus Mustela includes the subgenera Lutreola, Putorius, and Mustela. The type subgenus repeats the name of the genus. The name of the subgenus is placed in parentheses after the genus name; for example, Mustela (Putorius) eversmanni is the Siberian polecat.
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1998) also failed to support these subdivisions at the subgeneric level.
Species and distribution of Penaeoid shrimps in Thailand by Tangkrock-Olan, Nongnud; Senanan, Wansuk; Panutrakul, Suwanna; Barnette, Praparsiri / Journal of Shellfish Research
The different species of Blechnum have been tentatively classified into subgeneric groups (Tryon and Tryon, 1982), but their evolutionary relations remain poorly understood.
Blechnum x rodriguezii hyb. nov., a deer fern hybrid from Southern ... by Aguiar, Sonia; Quintanilla, Luis G.; Amigo, Javier / American Fern Journal
Two other generic or subgeneric names have been applied to these species (Tricropterus Rafinesque, 1810 and Carangus Girard, 1858), but both are junior synonyms of Caranx because the type species of these nominal taxa is also Scomber carangus Bloch.
Review of the crevalle jacks, Caranx hippos complex (Teleostei: ... by Smith-Vaniz, William F.; Carpenter, Kent E. / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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