Neurotrichini [SEP] parent taxon
Neurotrichini
Neurotrichini is a tribe within the subfamily Talpinae of the mole family. It includes the living genus "Neurotrichus"—with a single living species, the American shrew-mole ("Neurotrichus gibbsii") as well as some fossil species—and the fossil "Quyania".
Literature cited.
- Hutterer, R. 2005. Order Soricomorpha. Pp. 220–311 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore:
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