Name: "Candidatus Alkanivorans" Wu et al. 2022

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Al.ka.ni.vo’rans. N.L. neut. n. alkanum, alkane; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring; N.L. masc. n. Alkanivorans, an alkane eater

Gender: masculine (stem: Alkanivorant-)

Type species: "Candidatus Alkanivorans nitratireducens" Wu et al. 2022

Original publication: Wu M, Li J, Leu AO, Erler DV, Stark T, Tyson GW, Yuan Z, McIlroy SJ, Guo J. Anaerobic oxidation of propane coupled to nitrate reduction by a lineage within the class Symbiobacteriia. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6115.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Wu et al. (2022) assigned this genus to the class "Symbiobacteriia" Wang et al. 2021. Publication: Wu M, Li J, Leu AO, Erler DV, Stark T, Tyson GW, Yuan Z, McIlroy SJ, Guo J. Anaerobic oxidation of propane coupled to nitrate reduction by a lineage within the class Symbiobacteriia. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6115.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Alkanivoras".

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 Alkanivorans nitratireducens" Wu et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Alkanivorans nitrosoreducens" Dang et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Clostridia, not assigned to family]

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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Record number: 37587