Family "Candidatus Nanoperiomorbaceae"

Name: "Candidatus Nanoperiomorbaceae" McLean et al. 2020

Category, proposed as: family, Candidatus

Etymology: Na.no.pe.ri.o.mor.ba’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Nanoperiomorbaceae, aceae to denote a family, the family-level lineage of genus Nanoperiomorbus.

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: na-no-pe-ri-o-mor-BA-ke-a͡e, feminine

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

Original 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. 🇺🇸

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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 Nanoperiomorbales" 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 McLean et al. (2020) assigned the genus "Candidatus Nanoperiomorbus" McLean et al. 2020 to this family. 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Nanoperiodontomorbus" corrig. McLean et al. 2020	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Nanoperiomorbus" McLean et al. 2020	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

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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