Genus "Candidatus Baizomonas"

Name: "Candidatus Baizomonas" Hou et al. 2023

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ba.i.zo’mo.nas. Chinese n. Bai, Ze, a propitious white creature living in the cold Kunlun mountains in Chinese mythology; L. fem. n. monas, a monad; N.L. fem. n. Baizomonas, the microbe associated with cold environments

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Baizomonad-), ba-i-ZO-mo-nas

Type species: "Candidatus Baizomonas nivis" Hou et al. 2023

Original publication: Hou J, Wang Y, Zhu P, Yang N, Liang L, Yu T, Niu M, Konhauser K, Woodcroft BJ, Wang F. Taxonomic and carbon metabolic diversification of Bathyarchaeia during its coevolution history with early Earth surface environment. Sci Adv 2023; 9:eadf5069. 🇨🇳

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

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

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Baizomonadaceae" Hou et al. 2023

Assigned by: Hou J, Wang Y, Zhu P, Yang N, Liang L, Yu T, Niu M, Konhauser K, Woodcroft BJ, Wang F. Taxonomic and carbon metabolic diversification of Bathyarchaeia during its coevolution history with early Earth surface environment. Sci Adv 2023; 9:eadf5069. 🇨🇳

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Record number: 50900

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