Arizona myotis [SEP] parent taxon
Arizona myotis
The Arizona myotis ("Myotis occultus") is a vesper bat species inhabiting much of the southwestern United States and central Mexico as far south as the Distrito Federal.
Taxonomy and etymology.
It was described as a new species in 1909 by American zoologist Ned Hollister.
The holotype was collected near Needles, California in 1905.
Its species name ""occultus"" is Latin for "hidden or concealed."
Description.
It is a small species with a total length of
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