Hespererato [SEP] parent taxon
Hespererato
Hespererato is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eratoidae, the false cowries or trivias.
Species.
Species within the genus "Hespererato" include:
- "Hespererato columbella"
- † "Hespererato emmonsi"
- "Hespererato galapagensis"
- "Hespererato martinicensis"
- "Hespererato maugeriae"
- "Hespererato nanhaiensis"
- "Hespererato rehderi"
- "Hespererato rubra"
- "Hespererato scabriuscula"
- "Hespererato vitellina"
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