Name: "Candidatus Hepatobacteraceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: He.pa.to.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Hepatobacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Hepatobacteraceae, the Hepatobacter family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: he-pa-to-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Hepatobacter" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Original 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. 🇦🇺

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no pro-standing)

Correct name: Holosporaceae Görtz and Schmidt 2006

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Holosporaceae Görtz and Schmidt 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus "Candidatus Hepatobacter" Nunan et al. 2013 to this family. 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. 🇦🇺
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Holosporaceae Görtz and Schmidt 2006. Publication: Nunan LM, Pantoja CR, Gomez-Jimenez S, Lightner DV. "Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei," an intracellular pathogenic enteric bacterium in the hepatopancreas of the marine shrimp Penaeus vannamei (Crustacea: Decapoda). Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:1407-1409. 🇺🇸
  • 🧍 The article mentions the SeqCode. This SeqCode is not an officially recognized code of nomenclature. In fact, the use of the SeqCode is officially discouraged. ICNP-compliant databases and publications are not allowed to use the SeqCode. The SeqCode deliberately and systematically violates the ICNP. The SeqCode attempts to undermine the scientific standard called "valid publication of the name of a prokaryote" by lowering the requirements compared to the ICNP, but using the same term and assigning it to names whose formation is indistinguishable from the one used by the ICNP. LPSN follows the ICNP and treats such names as not validly published. Publication: Goker M, Moore ERB, Oren A, Trujillo ME. Status of the SeqCode in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5754. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Holosporales Szokoli et al. 2020

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Szokoli F, Castelli M, Sabaneyeva E, Schrallhammer M, Krenek S, Doak TG, Berendonk TU, Petroni G. Disentangling the Taxonomy of Rickettsiales and Description of Two Novel Symbionts ("Candidatus Bealeia paramacronuclearis" and "Candidatus Fokinia cryptica") Sharing the Cytoplasm of the Ciliate Protist Paramecium biaurelia. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:7236-7247. 🇮🇹

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