Elvis taxon (English, noun)
expansion: Elvis taxon (plural Elvis taxa)
Senses:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A taxon that has been misidentified as having re-emerged in the fossil record after a period of presumed extinction, but is not actually a descendant of the original taxon, instead having developed a similar morphology through convergent evolution.
Forms:
form: Elvis taxa
tags: plural