- a variation of intraspecies.
intraspecific
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Her example illustrates "intraspecific variation," which the study found to be pervasive across all North America's mammals.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
“The reason that they have a tail club is probably not driven by predation, but more for intraspecific combat,” Dr. Arbour said.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022
Competition among members of the same species is known as intraspecific competition.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
Evidence for intraspecific combat in some fossil birds is strongly suggested by the presence of carpometacarpal spurs, clubs and other structures highly similar to structures used in combat in living species.
From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2014
If this ecological segregation resulted from intraspecific competition in a stock of Ptychohyla, possibly P. euthysanota and P. schmidtorum differentiated sympatrically in this way.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by Duellman, William E.
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