Name: "Candidatus Competibacteraceae" McIlroy et al. 2014

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Com.pe.ti.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Competibacteraceae, the Competibacter family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: kom-pe-ti-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Competibacter" Crocetti et al. 2002

Effective publication: McIlroy SJ, Albertsen M, Andresen EK, Saunders AM, Kristiansen R, Stokholm-Bjerregaard M, Nielsen KL, Nielsen PH. 'Candidatus Competibacter'-lineage genomes retrieved from metagenomes reveal functional metabolic diversity. ISME J 2014; 8:613-624. 🇩🇰

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 McIlroy et al. (2014) assigned this family to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: McIlroy SJ, Albertsen M, Andresen EK, Saunders AM, Kristiansen R, Stokholm-Bjerregaard M, Nielsen KL, Nielsen PH. 'Candidatus Competibacter'-lineage genomes retrieved from metagenomes reveal functional metabolic diversity. ISME J 2014; 8:613-624. 🇩🇰
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 2; NCCB: 1; CBS: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Competibacter" Crocetti et al. 2002	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Contendibacter" corrig. McIlroy et al. 2014	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Contendobacter" McIlroy et al. 2014	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Plasticicumulans Jiang et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Competibacterales" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Assigned by: 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. 🇦🇺

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