Name: "Candidatus Hafkinia" Fokin et al. 2019

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Haf’kini.a. N.L. fem. n. Hafkinia, to the discoverer of Holospora, the bacteriologist Waldemar Mordecai Wolff A. Hafkine

Gender: feminine (stem: Hafkini-)

Type species: "Candidatus Hafkinia simulans" Fokin et al. 2019

Original publication: Fokin SI, Serra V, Ferrantini F, Modeo L, Petroni G. "Candidatus Hafkinia simulans" gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Holospora-Like Bacterium from the Macronucleus of the Rare Brackish Water Ciliate Frontonia salmastra (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora): Multidisciplinary Characterization of the New Endosymbiont and Its Host. Microb Ecol 2019; 77:1092-1106.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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 Hafkinia simulans" Fokin et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Holosporaceae Görtz and Schmidt 2006

Assigned by: Fokin SI, Serra V, Ferrantini F, Modeo L, Petroni G. "Candidatus Hafkinia simulans" gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Holospora-Like Bacterium from the Macronucleus of the Rare Brackish Water Ciliate Frontonia salmastra (Oligohymenophorea, Ciliophora): Multidisciplinary Characterization of the New Endosymbiont and Its Host. Microb Ecol 2019; 77:1092-1106.

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Record number: 491