Name: "Candidatus Desulfatifera" Van Vliet et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: De.sul.fa.ti’fe.ra. L. prep. de, off; N.L. masc. n. sulfas (gen. sulfatis), sulfate; L. fem. adj. fera, a wild beast; N.L. fem. n. Desulfatifera, a wild sulfate reducer

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Desulfatifer-), de-sul-fa-TI-fe-ra

Type species: "Candidatus Desulfatifera sulfidica" Van Vliet et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: van Vliet DM, von Meijenfeldt FAB, Dutilh BE, Villanueva L, Sinninghe Damste JS, Stams AJM, Sanchez-Andrea I. The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:2834-2857. 🇳🇱

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

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

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Van Vliet et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the family Desulfobulbaceae Kuever et al. 2006. Publication: van Vliet DM, von Meijenfeldt FAB, Dutilh BE, Villanueva L, Sinninghe Damste JS, Stams AJM, Sanchez-Andrea I. The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:2834-2857. 🇳🇱
  • 🧍 The distinct name Desulfatibia from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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 Desulfatifera sulfidica" Van Vliet et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Desulfocapsaceae Waite et al. 2020

Assigned by: Aronson HS, Thomas C, Bhattacharyya MK, Eckstein SR, Jensen SR, Barco RA, Macalady JL, Amend JP. Thiovibrio frasassiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an autotrophic, elemental sulphur disproportionating bacterium isolated from sulphidic karst sediment, and proposal of Thiovibrionaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6003. 🇺🇸

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