Name: "Candidatus Aurora" Grettenberger et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Au’ro.ra. L. fem. n. Aurora, the goddess of the dawn in Roman mythology, referring to the organism preference for inhabiting high latitude locations with low light

Gender: feminine (stem: Auror-)

Type species: "Candidatus Aurora vandensis" Grettenberger et al. 2020

Original publication: Grettenberger CL, Sumner DY, Wall K, Brown CT, Eisen JA, Mackey TJ, Hawes I, Jospin G, Jungblut AD. A phylogenetically novel cyanobacterium most closely related to Gloeobacter. ISME J 2020; 14:2142-2152.

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: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Cyanaurora" corrig. Grettenberger et al. 2020

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Cyanaurora" corrig. Grettenberger et al. 2020	corrected spelling of name, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aurofa".

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 Aurora vandensis" Grettenberger et al. 2020	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)

Parent taxon: Anthocerotibacteraceae Strunecký and Mareš 2023

Assigned by: Strunecky O, Ivanova AP, Mares J. An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis. J Phycol 2023; 59:12-51.

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Record number: 23187