Genus "Candidatus Forterrea"

Name: "Candidatus Forterrea" Probst and Banfield 2018

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: For.ter’re.a. N.L. fem. n. Forterrea, after Patrick Forterre, for his research on archaea and archaeal replication

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Forterre-), for-TER-re-a

Type species: "Candidatus Forterrea multitransposorum" Probst and Banfield 2018

16S rRNA gene: Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Probst AJ, Banfield JF. Homologous Recombination and Transposon Propagation Shape the Population Structure of an Organism from the Deep Subsurface with Minimal Metabolism. Genome Biol Evol 2018; 10:1115-1119. 🇺🇸

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

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: [Iainarchaeota, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 12861

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