Cadlinella [SEP] parent taxon
Cadlinella
Cadlinella is a genus of colourful sea slugs, specifically dorid nudibranchs, shell-less marine gastropod mollusks in the family Chromodorididae.
Species.
This genus includes the following species:
- "Cadlinella hirsuta"
- "Cadlinella ornatissima"
- "Cadlinella sagamiensis"
- "Cadlinella subornatissima"
- Species brought into synonymy :
- "Cadlinella japonica" : synonym of "Cadlina japonica" Baba, 1937
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