Name: "Candidatus Halectosymbiota" corrig. Filker et al. 2014

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ha.lec.to.sym.bi.o’ta. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt, salt water; Gr. adv. ektos, outside; N.L. fem. n. symbiota, one who lives with a companion, partner; from Gr. masc. n. symbiôtês; N.L. fem. n. Halectosymbiota, an ectosymbiont from salt water organisms

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Halectosymbiot-), ha-lek-to-sym-bi-O-ta

Type species: "Candidatus Halectosymbiota riaformosensis" corrig. Filker et al. 2014

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Filker S, Kaiser M, Rossello-Mora R, Dunthorn M, Lax G, Stoeck T. "Candidatus Haloectosymbiotes riaformosensis" (Halobacteriaceae), an archaeal ectosymbiont of the hypersaline ciliate Platynematum salinarum. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:244-251.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

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: Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Filker S, Kaiser M, Rossello-Mora R, Dunthorn M, Lax G, Stoeck T. "Candidatus Haloectosymbiotes riaformosensis" (Halobacteriaceae), an archaeal ectosymbiont of the hypersaline ciliate Platynematum salinarum. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:244-251.

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Record number: 21877
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