The two nominal species exhibit overlap in proportions but the same can be said about nearly every species of Syrrhophus; therefore, overlap in proportions can be disregarded in assessing specific versus subspecific rank.
Subspecific assignments have been made only when there is evidence of intergradation.
Guerrero were typical of the subspecies musculus, then pallidus did not deserve subspecific recognition, or; (2) the name B.
These differences seem to be microgeographic and not of subspecific rank.
Our knowledge of the geographical variation in coloration in this species is incomplete; many populations have been assigned to subspecific rank without justification.
The specimens of this type under consideration having been killed in the Bitter Root Mountains, the subspecific name of O.
The distinction is valueless as a subgeneric character, not only because the character is not constant in the species in the subgenus but also because there is subspecific variation in number of laminae in the cheekteeth.
Presence or absence of the groove is a subspecific character in the subgenus Proechimys.
The subspecific status of the bighorns in the San Gabriel Mountains has not been definitely determined.
Further sampling of populations of Perognathus fallax from areas adjacent to the San Gabriels might demonstrate differences of sufficient magnitude to warrant subspecific distinction of the San Gabriel population.
The subspecific status of two Central American sloths.
Pluvial periods in the Pleistocene provided for confluence of aquatic habitats and expansion of geographic ranges, and coupled with physiographic changes, conceivably caused or enhanced some of the subspecific variation.
For quick reference, all the specific and subspecific names proposed for soft-shelled turtles in North America are listed below in alphabetical order (left hand column) with their nomenclatural status as recognized in this paper.
Several subspecific forms are recognized but are not easily identified by the layman.
This subspecific title is orolestes, which translated from the Greek means oros, mountain, and lestes, robber.
Only one species is recognized in the United States, although over its vast range are many subspecific forms.
A study of subspecific variation in the yellow pocket gopher (Geomys lutescens) in Nebraska, and the geographical and ecological distribution of the variants.
The existence of this unique (among adjoining subspecies) cranial character is the principal reason for according subspecific status to this animal.
From the synonomy at the beginning of this account one may note that the animals here ascribed to this subspecies have had nearly as many subspecific names applied to them as there have been investigators who have written about them.
Although each of the previous writers had but a small amount of material upon which to base his opinion, the diversity of opinion as to subspecific status bespeaks the instability of these animals.
It is improbable that the fact of subspecific differentiation in Penthestes gambeli has been altogether overlooked previous to the present time.
All show in apparently equal degree the long tail and cinnamon tinge of sides and back, these features together constituting the grounds for separate subspecific recognition of a Rocky Mountain form.
By "shading" here is not meant subspecific relationship, altho this does obtain as regarding both griseonucha and littoralis, but rather suggestive relationship, assumed divergence from a common stock.
Where subspecific identification was difficult because of the fashion in which the material was preserved it should be understood that the subspecific name assigned was based largely or entirely on geographic probability.
In Microtus montanus in the eastern Rocky Mountains the degree of subspecific distinction is not great.
Nevertheless geographic variations of subspecific worth have not taken place.
The Subspecific Status of Two Central American Sloths BY E.
Taken together, the above evidence indicates subspecific status for the northern, Mexican, animal and we conclude that it should stand as Cyclopes tridactylus mexicanus Hollister.
Price, establishing this bird as an addition to our fauna, and resulting in its reduction to subspecific rank.
The subspecific differences are mainly a duller coloration, less yellowish, and of a paler shade, and the throat patch more restricted.
The subspecific name cockrumi is proposed in recognition of Dr.
This examination revealed that: (1) Perognathus callistus Osgood, heretofore considered to be a full species, should be reduced to subspecificrank under P.
Lacking specimens in breeding plumage, I was unable to determine the subspecific affinities of the population at Tenom.
Unfortunately, I lack enough specimens to make a subspecific identification.
Tamias townsendii cooperi~ Baird Some uncertainty exists concerning the subspecific identity of the Townsend Chipmunk in southern Washington because Dalquest (Univ.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the persons in charge of the several collections of mammals that we have consulted in order to satisfy ourselves concerning the subspecific status of specimens from many localities.
The subspecific identity of these animals has now been reinvestigated subsequently, although the locality whence they were obtained is far removed from what is now thought to be the geographic range of T.
Lowery did not, however, mention the specimens from Greensboro and, thus, their subspecific identity was placed in doubt.
Bole and Moulthrop's inclusion in their newly named subspecies of a specimen from as far west as East Columbia, Missouri, left in doubt the subspecific identity of specimens from Iowa and a specimen from Arkansas.
This, however has a wide range and, presenting more or less climatic variation in color, is recognized under several subspecific names.
Variations of this kind are spoken of as geographic, racial, or subspecific and the birds exhibiting them are termed subspecies.
It follows, therefore, that in some cases ornithologists do not agree upon a bird's claim to subspecific rank.
But, judging by the specimens now available, such subspecific recognition would tend to obscure rather than clarify the geographic variation noted.
Until additional information is available (especially as concerns the South American races), however, we tentatively apply the subspecific name C.
The subspecific identification is on geographic grounds, and is tentative.
These specimens substantiate the subspecificdistinctness of C.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subspecific" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
