Argentine conger [SEP] parent taxon
Argentine conger
The Argentine conger ("Conger orbignianus") is a conger of the family Congridae. It is widespread in the Western Atlantic ocean from Rio de Janeiro in Brasil to the Bonaelensis area in north Argentina. In the Eastern Atlantic it is known only as larvae from the southern Gulf of Guinea from Annobon (Equatorial Guinea) to Mossamedes (Angola). Marine demersal fish, up to 1.12 m length.
External links.
- "Conger orbignianus" at FishBase
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