subsubspecies
English
Etymology
From sub- + subspecies.
Noun
subsubspecies (plural subsubspecies)
- A subspecies of a subspecies.
- 1898, A[dolf] B[ernhard] Meyer; L[ionel] W[illiam] Wiglesworth, The Birds of Celebes and the Neighbouring Islands, volume I, Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn, page 52:
- […] and any geographical sections of the whole which have been called by distinct names are, by definition, only subspecies, or even subsubspecies.
- 1944, Stanley A. Cain, Foundations of Plant Geography, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 383:
- Kinsey’s species of Cynips are considered to be only subspecies or subsubspecies by Goldschmidt (282).
- 1944 November, E. Gorton Linsley, “The Naming of Infra-Specific Categories”, in Entomological News, volume LV, number 9, Philadelphia, Pa.: The American Entomological Society; The Academy of Natural Sciences, pages 227–228:
- Cases may also be encountered where very distinct subspecies appear to have been further segregated into what might be equivalent to “subsubspecies.”
- 1966, Paul B. Weisz, The Science of Zoology, McGraw-Hill Book Company, LCCN 65-21577, page 437:
- Moreover, a species usually encompasses subordinate classification groups such as subspecies (or varieties), subsubspecies (or races), and strains, and these too are distinguished by particular, unique variations (Fig. 16.2).