Name: "Candidatus Borkfalkiaceae" Hildebrand et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Bork.fal.ki.a.ce’ae. N.L. fem. n. Borkfalkia, a Candidatus genus; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Borkfalkiaceae, the Candidatus Borkfalkia family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Borkfalkia" Hildebrand et al. 2020

Original publication: Hildebrand F, Pallen MJ, Bork P. Towards standardisation of naming novel prokaryotic taxa in the age of high-throughput microbiology. Gut 2020; 69:1358-1359.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Comantemaea" Hildebrand et al. 2019	homotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order Christensenellales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.

Subdivision:

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: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Borkfalki" Hildebrand et al. 2019	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Borkfalkia" Hildebrand et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Caballimonas" Gilroy et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Coproplasma" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Gallimonas" Glendinning et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Scatosoma" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Borkfalkiales" Hildebrand et al. 2020

Assigned by: Hildebrand F, Pallen MJ, Bork P. Towards standardisation of naming novel prokaryotic taxa in the age of high-throughput microbiology. Gut 2020; 69:1358-1359.

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Record number: 28460