subspecific
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It is improbable that the fact of subspecific differentiation in Penthestes gambeli has been altogether overlooked previous to the present time.
From The Subspecies of the Mountain Chickadee by Grinnell, Joseph
In Microtus montanus in the eastern Rocky Mountains the degree of subspecific distinction is not great.
From Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus montanus, in Wyoming and Colorado by Anderson, Sydney
It will be observed that in this 'Check-List,' and consequently in the following pages, many birds have three scientific names, a generic, specific, and subspecific.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
He thought that alexandrae is no more differentiated or isolated than each of several other kinds of desert pocket gophers, and, therefore, accorded alexandrae only subspecific status, as I, also, am inclined to do.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
The subspecific identity of the animals from east-central Colorado thus is left in doubt.
From A New Pocket Gopher (Genus Thomomys), from Eastern Colorado by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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