Coralliophila [SEP] parent taxon
Coralliophila
Coralliophila is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coralliophilinae, the coral snails, within the family Muricidae, the murex snails and rock snails.
The genus "Coralliophila" is most probably polyphyletic and should be restricted to the species most closely related to the type species. Species in the genus" Hirtomurex", situated in the Indo-West Pacific are not clearly distinguishable from the species in the genus "Coralliophila" "sensu lato" (in the broad sense) found in the
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