Epomophorus [SEP] parent taxon
Epomophorus
Epomophorus is a genus of bat in the family Pteropodidae. They have a distribution throughout Africa.
Species.
"Epomophorus" contains the following species:
Genus Epomophorus
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat, "Epomophorus angolensis"
- Ansell's epauletted fruit bat, "Epomophorus anselli"
- Peters's epauletted fruit bat, "Epomophorus crypturus"
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat, "Epomophorus gambianus"
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat, "Epomophorus grandis"
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat,
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