Pomaulax [SEP] parent taxon
Pomaulax
Pomaulax is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
Description.
The large, solid, imperforate shell has a conic shape. The periphery is carinated. The base of the shell is flattened. The umbilical tract shows a strong curved rib. The ; operculum is obovate, narrower toward the proximal extremity. Its nucleus is terminal, its outside with four strong granulose ribs radiating from the nucleus.
Species.
Species within the genus "Pomaulax"
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