speciosity

Till deep misery, if nothing softer will, have driven you out of your Speciosites into your Sincerities; and you find there either is a Godlike in the world, or else ye are an unintelligible madness;

The circumstance that the proportion of taxa with 12 + 14 vertebrae increased in the lower categories is due to the speciosity of the Epinephelinae.

[David] Jablonski’s end-Cretaceous mollusc genera suffer extinction to an equal degree, irrespective of their speciosity, geographical spread or other extinctionproof insurance policies.

Here, then, is the old familiar pattern: one group among many expands until they outnumber all the rest. Yet the speciosity of the passerines should not be confused with ‘dominance’. Though they are,