Chinese babax [SEP] parent taxon
Chinese babax
The Chinese babax ("Pterorhinus lanceolatus") is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae.
It is found in China, Hong Kong, India, and Myanmar.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
This species was formerly placed in the genus "Babax" but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus "Pterorhinus".
References.
- Collar, N.
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