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."
Mike Malaska
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