How to Use subspecies in a Sentence

subspecies

noun
  • There are two subspecies of bison in North America.
  • The makos refers to the two subspecies of mako shark – shortfin and longfin.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Roy often claimed that white tigers were a distinct subspecies of tiger.
    — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Rios are by far the most abundant of the three subspecies of wild turkeys found in Texas.
    — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The local subspecies can weigh up to 8 pounds and the largest birds can have a wingspan of 7 feet or more.
    — NOLA.com, 26 May 2017
  • Of the world’s five rhino species, the northern white—one of two subspecies of white rhinos—drew the short straw.
    — Damon Casarez, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The western lowland gorilla, one of four subspecies of the great ape.
    — NBC News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Mexican gray wolves are the smallest of the gray wolf subspecies, according to the zoo.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2022
  • As a result, the northern white rhino subspecies is on the brink of extinction.
    — Sara Spary, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Koi are a subspecies of carp distinguished by color, larger size and higher price.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The Sumatran tiger subspecies has much narrower stripes than the others and has more of them.
    — Andrew Cushing, The Conversation, 23 Nov. 2020
  • In China, a subspecies called the white-handed gibbon may have gone extinct as well.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2017
  • In the Atlantic Ocean north of the equator, two subspecies exist.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 10 June 2021
  • Horned larks are still alive today in the form of two subspecies found in open, airy habitats across the Northern hemisphere.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Next, check out mangaves, a cross between agave plants — some of which are the source of tequila — and a subspecies, manfreda.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The species include the smaller black rhino and two subspecies of white rhino – northern and southern.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The first three birds are all subspecies that are only found in Hawaiʻi and are all considered very endangered.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • The West African black rhino was one of four subspecies of rhinoceros.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The great white heron, a pure white subspecies of the great blue heron, resides along the coastlines of southern Florida.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • In most subspecies, pairs mate in private, but the South African ostrich mates in front of any other females that might be around.
    — Tom McNamara, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Compared to the smallest tiger subspecies — the Sumatran tiger, which is only the weight of a large adult man — these tigers are truly king-size.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 8 June 2020
  • Meanwhile, efforts are underway to boost the subspecies’ chances of making it in Arizona.
    — Shaena Montanari, National Geographic, 26 June 2020
  • The once-widespread subspecies ranged throughout Central Asia and as far east as India.
    — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The three subspecies of sagebrush—Wyoming, mountain, and basin—are hard to differentiate, but drones may help.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 18 June 2015
  • In the 1960s one subspecies of the common ostrich went extinct from hunting and habitat loss.
    — National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The most distinctive type of slime is a subspecies called floam, thickened by a spoonful of Styrofoam pellets.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
  • The last male, Sudan, died in 2018, raising fears the subspecies is on the verge of extinction.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 7 Nov. 2020
  • How then, to distinguish between the three subspecies and prove that the venereal form had existed in Europe all along?
    — Marylynn Salmon, The Conversation, 13 July 2022
  • Tiny Gam is one of the only places on earth where the red bird of paradise (Paradisaea rubra), one of 14 subspecies, can be found.
    — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 21 Feb. 2021
  • The Mexican subspecies of the Virginia opossum has appeared eight times in front of the cameras during the study over the past year.
    — AZCentral.com, 15 Apr. 2021

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