Findley's myotis [SEP] parent taxon
Findley's myotis
Findley's myotis ("Myotis findleyi") is a species of vesper bat. It is found only on the Tres Marías Islands off the west coast of Mexico.
Taxonomy and etymology.
This species was first encountered by Alphonse Forrer in the late 19th century. The specimen he collected was described by Oldfield Thomas as a member of the black myotis ("Myotis nigricans").
In 1928, the specimen collected by Forrer was identified as the California myotis ("Myotis californicus")
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