Pseudoliomera [SEP] parent taxon
Pseudoliomera
Pseudoliomera is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae, containing the following species:
- "Pseudoliomera granosimana"
- "Pseudoliomera helleri"
- "Pseudoliomera lata"
- "Pseudoliomera neospeciosa"
- "Pseudoliomera paraspeciosa"
- "Pseudoliomera remota"
- "Pseudoliomera ruppellioides"
- "Pseudoliomera speciosa"
- "Pseudoliomera variolosa"
- "Pseudoliomera violacea"
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