Mike Malaska on Nostr: Also "taxon in disguise" where they figure out later that things fit together ...

Also "taxon in disguise" where they figure out later that things fit together differently.

A great example is genus Shigella (one species causes dysentery. Very bad.). Turns out...the whole genus is (are?) just strains of E coli. So it should be be reclassified.

But there is so much negative publicity (the dysentery thing), that it would be dangerously confusing to reclassify it.

So it remains as a neat factoid for those "in the know."