Name: "Candidatus Hepatobacter" Nunan et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: He.pa.to.bac’ter. Gr. neut. n. hêpar (gen. hêpatos), liver; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Hepatobacter, a rod from the liver

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Hepatobacter-), he-pa-to-BAK-ter

Type species: "Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei" Nunan et al. 2013

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Nunan LM, Pantoja CR, Gomez-Jimenez S, Lightner DV. "Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei," an intracellular pathogenic enteric bacterium in the hepatopancreas of the marine shrimp Penaeus vannamei (Crustacea: Decapoda). Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:1407-1409. 🇺🇸

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Hepatobacter" Chuvochina et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not pro-validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family "Candidatus Hepatobacteraceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Hepatobacter" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Hepatobacterium".

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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Hepatobacter paralithodi" Ryazanova et al. 2020	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Hepatobacter paralithodis" corrig. Ryazanova et al. 2020	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei" Nunan et al. 2013	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Holosporaceae Görtz and Schmidt 2006

Assigned by: Nunan LM, Pantoja CR, Gomez-Jimenez S, Lightner DV. "Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei," an intracellular pathogenic enteric bacterium in the hepatopancreas of the marine shrimp Penaeus vannamei (Crustacea: Decapoda). Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:1407-1409. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 21774