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Class "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculia"
Name: "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculia" Slobodkina et al. 2025
Etymology: De.sul.fo.cor.pus.cu’li.a. N.L. neut. n. Desulfocorpusculum, type genus of the class; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Desulfocorpusculia, the classof the genus Desulfocorpusculum
Pronunciation, gender: de-sul-fo-kor-pus-KU-li-a, neuter
Type order: "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculales" Slobodkina et al. 2025
Original publication:
Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650. 
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)
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Notes:
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🧕 Slobodkina et al. (2025) assigned this class to the phylum Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2023.
Publication:
Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650.
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🧕 Slobodkina et al. (2025) assigned this class to the phylum Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2023.
Publication:
Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculales" Slobodkina et al. 2025 not validly published preferred name
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Parent taxon: Thermodesulfobacteriota Garrity and Holt 2021
Assigned by:
Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.
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Record number: 67282
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