Tylomyini [SEP] parent taxon
Tylomyini
Tylomyini is a tribe of New World rats and mice in the subfamily Tylomyinae. The rats share the characteristics of all being climbing rats.
Classification.
Tribe Tylomyini
- Genus"Tylomys"
- Chiapan climbing rat, "Tylomys bullaris"
- Fulvous-bellied climbing rat, "Tylomys fulviventer"
- Mira climbing rat, "Tylomys mirae"
- Peters's climbing rat, "Tylomys nudicaudus"
- Panamanian climbing rat, "Tylomys panamensis"
- Tumbala climbing rat, "Tylomys tumbalensis
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