Fort Maguire aulonocara [SEP] parent taxon
Fort Maguire aulonocara
The Fort Maguire aulonocara ("Aulonocara hansbaenschi"), also known as "Aulonocara" 'Fort Maguire' in the aquarium fish trade, is a species of haplochromine cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi.
It is found in Malawi and Mozambique. Its natural habitat is freshwater lakes. This species is treated as junior synonym of "Aulonocara stuartgranti" by the IUCN and the Catalog of Fishes, but FishBase treat it as a valid species.
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