Name: "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculum" Slobodkina et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: De.sul.fo.cor.pus’cu.lum. N.L. pref. desulfo-, desulfuricating (in compound words); L. neut. n. corpusculum, a little body; N.L. neut. n. Desulfocorpusculum, a sulfate-reducing bacterium

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Desulfocorpuscul-), de-sul-fo-kor-PUS-ku-lum

Type species: "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculum asiaticum" Slobodkina et al. 2025

Original publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650. 🇷🇺

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

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

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculaceae" Slobodkina et al. 2025. Publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650. 🇷🇺
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculales" Slobodkina et al. 2025. Publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650. 🇷🇺
  • 🧕 Slobodkina et al. (2025) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculales" Slobodkina et al. 2025. Publication: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650. 🇷🇺

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 Desulfocorpusculum asiaticum" Slobodkina et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Desulfocorpusculaceae" Slobodkina et al. 2025

Assigned by: Slobodkina GB, Merkel AY, Kondrasheva KV, Stroeva AR, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Davranov KD, Slobodkin AI. Taxonomic and metabolic diversity of microbial communities in a thermal water stream in Uzbekistan and proposal of two new classes of uncultivated bacteria, Desulfocorpusculia class. nov. and Tepidihabitantia class. nov., named following the rules of SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126650. 🇷🇺

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