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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Candidatus Desulfonatronobulbus"

Name: "Candidatus Desulfonatronobulbus" Sorokin and Chernyh 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: De.sul.fo.na.tro.no.bul’bus. L. prep. de, from; N.L. pref. sulfo-, pertaining to sulfur (in compound words); from N.L. masc. n. sulfas (gen. sulfatis), sulfate; N.L. neut. n. natron, arbitrarily derived from the Arabic natrun or natron soda; L. masc. n. bulbus, a bulb, an onion; N.L. masc. n. Desulfonatronobulbus, an onion-shaped natronophilic sulfate reducer

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Desulfonatronobulb-), de-sul-fo-na-tro-no-BUL-bus

Type species: "Candidatus Desulfonatronobulbus propionicus" Sorokin and Chernyh 2016

Effective publication: Sorokin DY, Chernyh NA. 'Candidatus Desulfonatronobulbus propionicus': a first haloalkaliphilic member of the order Syntrophobacterales from soda lakes. Extremophiles 2016; 20:895-901. 🇷🇺

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: 1

Parent taxon: Syntrophobacteraceae Kuever et al. 2006

Assigned by: Sorokin DY, Chernyh NA. 'Candidatus Desulfonatronobulbus propionicus': a first haloalkaliphilic member of the order Syntrophobacterales from soda lakes. Extremophiles 2016; 20:895-901. 🇷🇺

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Record number: 21755
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