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Examples of species penultimately displaced by humans (9)

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I believe the answer is:

specimens

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'examples' is the definition.
(specimen is a kind of example)

'species penultimately displaced by humans' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'species' could be 'sp' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'sp' is present in the answer.
'humans' could be 'men' (man is a kind of human) and 'men' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for specimens that I've seen before include "Pisces men make prime examples" , "Samples of Pisces men" , "Representative samples" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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