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noun(biology) taxonomic group that is a subdivision of an ordertype of:
Definition that contains suborder
- carnivora cats; lions; tigers; panthers; dogs; wolves; jackals; bears; raccoons; skunks; and members of the suborder Pinnipedia
- nudibranch any of various marine gastropods of the suborder Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully colored body
- saurian any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs
- anthropoid any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
- ruminant related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud
- nothosauria a suborder of Sauropterygia
- family pholidae a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea
- suborder tarsioidea in some classifications assigned to the suborder Prosimii
- raphidiidae a family of arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies
- stereospondyli formerly a suborder of Stegocephalia; amphibia having vertebrae whose component elements are fused into a single piece