Solatia [SEP] parent taxon
Solatia
Solatia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Species.
Species within the genus "Solatia" include:
- "Solatia buccinoides"
- "Solatia piscatoria"
- Species brought into synonymy:
- "Solatia arafurensis" : synonym of "Mirandaphera arafurensis"
- S"olatia solat" : synonym of "Solatia piscatoria"
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