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The subfamilies are major subdivisions of the family, while the tribes and subtribe can contain one or more of genera, which is the classification level just above the species.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2024

The tyrosine kinases evolved before yeast diverged from other eukaryotes, but the other fifty-five subfamilies of kinases evolved after yeast diverged.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

There is little overlap between rodent subfamilies and human-infective subfamilies, despite P. ovale being a sister taxa to the rodent-infecting species.

From Nature • Jan. 24, 2017

Today, after several thousand years Noruz is the cornerstone of all the Iranian subfamilies being from northern China or Bulgaria.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2016

The whole Austronesian language family consists of 959 languages, divided among four subfamilies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond