supraspeciesn.adj.

1938 J. S. Huxley in Proc. Linn. Soc. 150 255 Various terminologies have been proposed, but I would suggest the following as the most general and involving the least break with accepted terminology. I here confine it to geographical forms, though it can be extended to other types of differentiation:... Supra-species: Groups of forms showing geographical replacement, but with some forms showing differentiation certainly or probably meriting specific rank. (Intermediate between polytypic species and geographical subgenera.)

1942 E. Mayr Systematics & Origin of Species vii. 169 The term supraspecies, used by several recent authors, seems to me to be an unfortunate combination.

1976 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 73 3233/2 This species has either been considered synonymous with A. sieboldi or included with it in an ill-defined species or supraspecies.

1960 Amer. Midland Naturalist 64 91 The presence or absence of an elytral fovea..is too variable in contrast to other features to be used as a key character at the supra-species level of organization.

1986 R. Wigand & T. Adrian in W. Doerfler Adenovirus DNA xii. 435 Thereafter, supraspecies and subgeneric taxonomy has to be reconsidered.

2004 Systematic Biol. 53 723/2 All remaining supraspecies nodes supported island ancestry, involving at least six back colonizations to the mainland.