Arremon [SEP] parent taxon
Arremon
Arremon is a genus of neotropical birds in the Passerellidae family. With the exception of the green-striped brush finch and the Guerrero brush finch, which is endemic to Mexico, all species are found in South America, with a few reaching Central America.
Species.
This genus includes species traditionally placed in "Buarremon" and "Lysurus".
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