subsubspecies

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ subspecies.

Noun

subsubspecies (plural subsubspecies)

1. 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, 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).