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What is a suborder?

What is a suborder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (taxonomy) A taxonomic category below order and above infraorder.
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Toothed whales are part of the suborder Odontoceti along with dolphins and porpoises.
The more familiar spiders are grouped into the suborder Opisthothelae, which is itself divided into two infraorders.
These nautiloids are very similar in form and structure to the tarphycerids, among which they are now generally included as a suborder.
What most gardeners call thrips are the larvae of a flying insect entomologists group in the suborder Terebrantia.
This nomenclator contains all specific and infraspecific names attributed to the suborder.
In thelytoky, which occurs in many species of the suborder Symphyta, unmated females produce males.

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