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Genus "Candidatus Desulfatifera"
Name: "Candidatus Desulfatifera" Van Vliet et al. 2021
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: feminine (stem: Desulfatifer-), de-sul-fa-TI-fe-ra
Type species: "Candidatus Desulfatifera sulfidica" Van Vliet et al. 2021
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)
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Notes:
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🧕 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.
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🧍 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.
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🧕 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.
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Desulfatifera sulfidica" Van Vliet et al. 2021 not validly published preferred name
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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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Record number: 15337
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