Sentence examples for most speciose group from inspiring English sources

Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many major lineages remain unresolved.

The most speciose group is Crustacea, which includes an abundance of copepods, amphipods, decapods, and mysids.

Bats (Chiroptera) are the most ecologically diverse and, after the rodents, the second most speciose group of mammals (∼1100 spp).

Pufferfishes of the Family Tetraodontidae are the most speciose group in the Order Tetraodontiformes and mainly inhabit coastal waters along continents.

Downy mildews are the most speciose group of oomycetes and affect crops of great economic importance.

Commonly called "spiny rats," the Echimyidae represents the most speciose group of caviomorph rodents (guinea pigs and their allies).

As an example of this, there are three recent papers describing new shallow water cryptic fish species (gobies and blennioids, the two most speciose groups of fishes) from Honduras, Saba, and Belize [62], [79], [80].

These traits were later enhanced to various degrees in different descendant lineages, and the particularly successful "advanced snakes" diversified and radiated into one of the most speciose groups of vertebrates.

This is mainly due to the immense diversity of Lepidoptera, which include nearly 160,000 species and belong to the most speciose groups of animals [ 1].

Phylogenetic estimate of species richness of Nannomys in our study (25 30 MOTUs that may represent separate species) suggests that it is one of the most speciose groups of African terrestrial mammals.

The delphinid clade has been the most speciose living group of Cetacea [ 25] (containing 35 of 89 known species) and the most ecologically versatile, occupying tropical to polar latitudes, coastal and oceanic waters, estuaries, and sometimes freshwater rivers.