Name: "Faecousia" Hitch et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Faec.ou.si’a. L. fem. n. faex, dregs; Gr. fem. n. ousia, an essence; N.L. fem. n. Faecousia, a microbe associated with faeces

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Faecousi-), fa͡ek-ou-SI-a

Type species: "Faecousia intestinalis" Hitch et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Hitch TCA, Masson JM, Pauvert C, Bosch J, Nuchtern S, Treichel NS, Baloh M, Razavi S, Afrizal A, Kousetzi N, et al. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nat Commun 2025; 16:4203. 🇩🇪

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Candidatus Faecousia" Gilroy et al. 2021.

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
    "Faecousia intestinalis" Hitch et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

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Record number: 65580