Name: "Candidatus Nanogingivalaceae" McLean et al. 2020

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Na.no.gin.gi.va.la’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Nanogingivalis, a Candidatus genus; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Nanogingivalaceae, the Candidatus Nanogingivalis family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: na-no-gin-gi-wa-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Nanogingivalis" McLean et al. 2020

Effective publication: McLean JS, Bor B, Kerns KA, Liu Q, To TT, Solden L, Hendrickson EL, Wrighton K, Shi W, He X. Acquisition and Adaptation of Ultra-small Parasitic Reduced Genome Bacteria to Mammalian Hosts. Cell Rep 2020; 32:107939. 🇺🇸

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

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this family to the order "Candidatus Saccharimonadales" corrig. Lemos et al. 2019. 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. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 McLean et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order "Candidatus Nanogingivalales" corrig. McLean et al. 2020. Publication: McLean JS, Bor B, Kerns KA, Liu Q, To TT, Solden L, Hendrickson EL, Wrighton K, Shi W, He X. Acquisition and Adaptation of Ultra-small Parasitic Reduced Genome Bacteria to Mammalian Hosts. Cell Rep 2020; 32:107939. 🇺🇸

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Nanogingivalis" McLean et al. 2020	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Nanosynbacterales Hendrickson et al. 2026

Assigned by: Hendrickson EL, Bor B, He X, McLean JS. Nanosynbacter lyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., an ultrasmall, obligate epibiont bacterium and the proposal of Nanosynbacteraceae fam. nov., Nanosynbacterales ord. nov. and Nanosynbacteria class nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7162. 🇺🇸

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