Name: "Candidatus Elarobacter" Ji et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: E.la.ro.ba’cter. Gr. fem. n. Elara, maiden in Greek mythology who was hidden beneath the earth, where she gave birth to Tityus; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Elarobacter, a bacterium recovered from soil

Gender: masculine (stem: Elarobacter-)

Type species: "Candidatus Elarobacter winogradskyi" Ji et al. 2021

Original publication: Ji M, Williams TJ, Montgomery K, Wong HL, Zaugg J, Berengut JF, Bissett A, Chuvochina M, Hugenholtz P, Ferrari BC. Candidatus Eremiobacterota, a metabolically and phylogenetically diverse terrestrial phylum with acid-tolerant adaptations. ISME J 2021; 15:2692-2707.

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Ji et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the family "Candidatus Baltobacteraceae" Ward et al. 2019. Publication: Ji M, Williams TJ, Montgomery K, Wong HL, Zaugg J, Berengut JF, Bissett A, Chuvochina M, Hugenholtz P, Ferrari BC. Candidatus Eremiobacterota, a metabolically and phylogenetically diverse terrestrial phylum with acid-tolerant adaptations. ISME J 2021; 15:2692-2707.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Erobacter 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.

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: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Elarobacter beijerinckii" Ji et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Elarobacter pasteuri" Ji et al. 2021	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Elarobacter pasteurii" corrig. Ji et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Elarobacter vanleeuwenhoeki" Ji et al. 2021	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Elarobacter vanleeuwenhoekii" corrig. Ji et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Elarobacter winogradskyi" Ji et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Vulcanimicrobiaceae Yabe et al. 2024

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 35531