Ningbingia [SEP] parent taxon
Ningbingia
Ningbingia is a genus of land snails in the family Camaenidae. This genus is endemic to Kimberley in Western Australia.
"Ningbingia" is differentiated from other genera by the morphology of the penis. Species in the genus have shells of average size with raised spires.
Species.
Species include:
- "Ningbingia australis"
- "Ningbingia bulla"
- "Ningbingia dentiens"
- "Ningbingia laurina"
- "Ningbingia octava"
- "Ningbingia res"
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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