suborder

Definitions

Examples

• If you like mammal species from the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue")...

• The wings are ample and are somewhat folded or plaited, from which character the suborder takes its name.

• Closely allied to the latter suborder is the suborder Plecoptera, which includes the single family Perlid or Stone-flies.

• Rostrif′era, a suborder of gasteropods, with contractile rostrum or snout.

• Crabs of this suborder inhabit all seas of the globe, and are found from the shore to great depths.

• The group of rays and Hasse's order of Cyclospondyli we may consider each as a suborder of Tectospondyli.