Name: "Candidatus Caldatribacterium" Dodsworth et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Cald.atri.bac.te’ri.um. L. masc. adj. caldus, hot; L. adj. ater -tra -trum, black; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, rod or staff; N.L. neut. n. Caldatribacterium, refers to a rod-shaped bacterium from a hot environment, where ‘black’ or ‘dark’ references both microbial ‘dark matter’ and the dark, anaerobic environments where the lineage is found

Gender: neuter (stem: Caldatribacteri-)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Dodsworth JA, Blainey PC, Murugapiran SK, Swingley WD, Ross CA, Tringe SG, Chain PS, Scholz MB, Lo CC, Raymond J, et al. Single-cell and metagenomic analyses indicate a fermentative and saccharolytic lifestyle for members of the OP9 lineage. Nat Commun 2013; 4:1854.

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: 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: 6

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Caldatribacteriaceae" Murray et al. 2020

Assigned by: Murray AE, Freudenstein J, Gribaldo S, Hatzenpichler R, Hugenholtz P, Kampfer P, Konstantinidis KT, Lane CE, Papke RT, Parks DH, et al. Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria. Nat Microbiol 2020; 5:987-994.

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Record number: 19167
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