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Genus "Candidatus Hepatobacter"
Name: "Candidatus Hepatobacter" Nunan et al. 2013
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: masculine (stem: Hepatobacter-), he-pa-to-BAK-ter
Type species: "Candidatus Hepatobacter penaei" Nunan et al. 2013
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
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Candidatus Hepatobacter" Chuvochina et al. 2023 homotypic synonym, not pro-validly published
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Notes:
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🧕 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.
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🚋 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".
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🧕 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.
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
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Child taxa:
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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
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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
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