Name: "Candidatus Desulfopertinax" Jungbluth et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: De.sul.fo.per’ti.nax. L. prep. de, from; L. neut. n. sulfur, sulfur (S); N.L. pref. desulfo-, desulfuricating, used to characterize a dissimilatory sulfate-reducing prokaryote (in compound words); L. adj. pertinax, tenacious; N.L. masc. n. Desulfopertinax, a tenacious sulfate-reducing bacterium

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Desulfopertinac-), de-sul-fo-PER-ti-naks

Type species: "Candidatus Desulfopertinax cowenii" Jungbluth et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Effective publication: Jungbluth SP, Glavina Del Rio T, Tringe SG, Stepanauskas R, Rappe MS. Genomic comparisons of a bacterial lineage that inhabits both marine and terrestrial deep subsurface systems. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3134. 🇺🇸

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

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Jungbluth et al. (2017) assigned this genus to the phylum "Firmicutes" (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Jungbluth SP, Glavina Del Rio T, Tringe SG, Stepanauskas R, Rappe MS. Genomic comparisons of a bacterial lineage that inhabits both marine and terrestrial deep subsurface systems. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3134. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Parte et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the phylum "Bacillota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612. 🇩🇪

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 Desulfopertinax cowenii" Jungbluth et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Desulforudaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

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Record number: 28474