Name: "Candidatus Hecatella" Adam et al. 2022

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: He.ca.tel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Hecatella, little Hecate, after the Greek mythology goddess of witchcraft and crossroads, a reference to their metabolism being at the “crossroads” of methanogenesis and the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway by means of its Mtr complex

Gender: feminine (stem: Hecatell-)

Type species: "Candidatus Hecatella orcuttiae" Adam et al. 2022

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Adam PS, Kolyfetis GE, Bornemann TLV, Vorgias CE, Probst AJ. Genomic remnants of ancestral methanogenesis and hydrogenotrophy in Archaea drive anaerobic carbon cycling. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabm9651.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Hecatellaceae" Adam et al. 2022. Publication: Adam PS, Kolyfetis GE, Bornemann TLV, Vorgias CE, Probst AJ. Genomic remnants of ancestral methanogenesis and hydrogenotrophy in Archaea drive anaerobic carbon cycling. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabm9651.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Hecatellales" Adam et al. 2022. Publication: Adam PS, Kolyfetis GE, Bornemann TLV, Vorgias CE, Probst AJ. Genomic remnants of ancestral methanogenesis and hydrogenotrophy in Archaea drive anaerobic carbon cycling. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabm9651.
  • 🧕 Adam et al. (2022) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Hecatellales" Adam et al. 2022. Publication: Adam PS, Kolyfetis GE, Bornemann TLV, Vorgias CE, Probst AJ. Genomic remnants of ancestral methanogenesis and hydrogenotrophy in Archaea drive anaerobic carbon cycling. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabm9651.

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 Hecatella orcuttiae" Adam et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Hecatellaceae" Adam et al. 2022

Assigned by: Adam PS, Kolyfetis GE, Bornemann TLV, Vorgias CE, Probst AJ. Genomic remnants of ancestral methanogenesis and hydrogenotrophy in Archaea drive anaerobic carbon cycling. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabm9651.

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