Austrjapyx [SEP] parent taxon
Austrjapyx
Austrjapyx is a genus of diplurans in the family Japygidae.
Species.
- "Austrjapyx aberrans"
- "Austrjapyx autuorii"
- "Austrjapyx barberoi"
- "Austrjapyx bitancourtii"
- "Austrjapyx chapecoi"
- "Austrjapyx degradans"
- "Austrjapyx descolei"
- "Austrjapyx lilloi"
- "Austrjapyx neotropicalis"
- "Austrjapyx parvulus"
- "Austrjapyx peluffoi"
- "Austrjapyx rochalimai"
- "Austrjapyx teutonius"
- "Austrjapyx travassosi"
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