Zonulispira [SEP] parent taxon
Zonulispira
Zonulispira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
Species.
Species within the genus "Zonulispira" include:
- "Zonulispira chrysochildosa"
- "Zonulispira crocata"
- "Zonulispira grandimaculata"
- "Zonulispira zonulata"
- Species brought into synonymy:
- "Zonulispira dirce" : synonym of "Zonulispira grandimaculata"
- "Zonulispira sanibelensis" : synonym of "Zonulispira crocata"
References.
- P. Bartsch (1950), "
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of