Pulicicochlea [SEP] parent taxon
Pulicicochlea
Pulicicochlea is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae.
Distribution.
This marine genus occurs in the Western Pacific and off Australia (Queensland).
Species.
Species within the genera "Pulicicochlea" include:
- "Pulicicochlea astropyga"
- "Pulicicochlea calamaris"
- "Pulicicochlea faba"
- "Pulicicochlea fusca"
References.
- Ponder, W.F. & Gooding, R.U. 1978. "Four new eulimid gastropods associated with
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