Genus "Candidatus Ectomicrobium"

Name: "Candidatus Ectomicrobium" Mies and Brune 2024

Category, proposed as: genus, Candidatus

Etymology: Ec.to.mi.cro’bi.um. Gr. adv. ektos, outside, external; N.L. neut. n. microbium, microbe; N.L. neut. n. Ectomicrobium, a microbe that occurs on the outside (of another organism)

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Ectomicrobi-), ek-to-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: "Candidatus Ectomicrobium neotermitis" Mies and Brune 2024

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Mies US, Herve V, Kropp T, Platt K, Sillam-Dusses D, Sobotnik J, Brune A. Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia-rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates. mBio 2024; 15:e0082624. 🇩🇪

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Ectomicrobium neotermitis" Mies and Brune 2024	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Endomicrobiaceae Zheng et al. 2018

Assigned by: Mies US, Herve V, Kropp T, Platt K, Sillam-Dusses D, Sobotnik J, Brune A. Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia-rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates. mBio 2024; 15:e0082624. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 48978