For a connected graph
G, the
rth extraconnectivity
κr(G) is defined as the minimum cardinality of a cutset
X such that all remaining components after the deletion of the vertices of
X have at least
r+1 vertices. The standard connectivity and superconnectivity correspond to
κ0(G) and
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r-tree degree of
G, denoted by
ξr(G), is the minimum cardinality of
N(T) taken over all trees
T
G of order
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N(T) being the set of vertices not in
T that are neighbors of some vertex of
T. When
r=1, any such considered tree is just an edge of
G. Then,
ξ1(G) is equal to the so-called minimum edge-degree of
G, defined as
ξ(G)=min{d(u)+d(v)-2:uv
E(G)}, where
d(u) stands for the degree of vertex
u. A graph
G is said to be optimally
r-extraconnected, for short
κr-optimal, if
κr(G)
ξr(G). In this paper, we present some sufficient conditions that guarantee
κr(G)
ξr(G) for
r
2. These results improve some previous related ones, and can be seen as a complement of some others which were obtained by the authors for
r=1.