Name: "Candidatus Azobacteroides" Hongoh et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: A.zo.bac.te.ro’i.des. N.L. neut. n. azotum, nitrogen; from French masc. n. azote, nitrogen; from Gr. pref. a-, not (inseparable prefix); from Gr. fem. n. zôê, life; from N.Gr. fem. n. azôê, not sustaining life; N.L. masc. n. Bacteroides, a bacterial genus; N.L. neut. n. Azobacteroides, a nitrogen (fixing) Bacteroides

Gender: neuter (stem: Azobacteroid-)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Hongoh Y, Sharma VK, Prakash T, Noda S, Toh H, Taylor TD, Kudo T, Sakaki Y, Toyoda A, Hattori M, et al. Genome of an endosymbiont coupling N2 fixation to cellulolysis within protist cells in termite gut. Science 2008; 322:1108-1109.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Azobacteroides" Chuvochina et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not validly published

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 Azobacteroides pseudotrichonymphae" Hongoh et al. 2008	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Azobacteroidaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Assigned by: 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.

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