The results showed the cat to be either a new species or a new subspecies, but there weren't enough samples to confirm.
Either way, they can literally build a whole new subspecies for a specific purpose.
A new subspecies of economics has sprung up, calling itself behavioral finance.
Fast-forward to last year, when scientists there discovered a new subspecies of butterfly.
The result, unless I miss my guess, will be a new type, perhaps even a new subspecies, of human being.
Furthermore, a small resident population is known from Brazil, it being named as a new subspecies, brasiliensis, in 2008.
Several new subspecies of previously known species were described.
This population is distinctively darker and could soon be a new subspecies.
Through natural evolutionary processes, it can change over time to become one or more new subspecies.
Based on locality, enough that some herpetologists have considered whether they should be classified as a new subspecies.