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Genus "Candidatus Cavanaughia"
Name: "Candidatus Cavanaughia" Russell et al. 2020
Etymology: Ca.va.nau’ghi.a. N.L. fem. n. Cavanaughia, named after Prof. Colleen Cavanaugh who was one of the first to discover chemosynthetic symbiosis and worked on Solemya velum throughout her career and contributed significant knowledge to the field about its biology
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Cavanaughi-), ka-wa-NA͡U-ghi-a
Type species: "Candidatus Cavanaughia solemyae" corrig. Russell et al. 2020
Effective publication:
Russell SL, Pepper-Tunick E, Svedberg J, Byrne A, Ruelas Castillo J, Vollmers C, Beinart RA, Corbett-Detig R. Horizontal transmission and recombination maintain forever young bacterial symbiont genomes. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008935. 
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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: not validly published
Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: pro-correct name
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Cavanaughia endovela" Russell et al. 2020 inaccurate spelling misspelling "Candidatus Cavanaughia solemyae" corrig. Russell et al. 2020 not validly published pro-correct name
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Parent taxon: [Gammaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]
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Record number: 28493
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