Name: "Candidatus Ignotibacter" corrig. George et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ig.no.ti.bac’ter. L. masc. adj. ignotus, unknown; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Ignotibacter, an unknown rod

Gender: masculine (stem: Ignotibacter-)

Type species: "Candidatus Ignotibacter abundans" corrig. George et al. 2020

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: George EE, Husnik F, Tashyreva D, Prokopchuk G, Horak A, Kwong WK, Lukes J, Keeling PJ. Highly Reduced Genomes of Protist Endosymbionts Show Evolutionary Convergence. Curr Biol 2020; 30:925-933.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Nesciobacter" George et al. 2020	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Nesciobacter" George et al. 2020. Publication: George EE, Husnik F, Tashyreva D, Prokopchuk G, Horak A, Kwong WK, Lukes J, Keeling PJ. Highly Reduced Genomes of Protist Endosymbionts Show Evolutionary Convergence. Curr Biol 2020; 30:925-933.

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 Ignotibacter abundans" corrig. George et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Holosporaceae Görtz and Schmidt 2006

Assigned by: George EE, Husnik F, Tashyreva D, Prokopchuk G, Horak A, Kwong WK, Lukes J, Keeling PJ. Highly Reduced Genomes of Protist Endosymbionts Show Evolutionary Convergence. Curr Biol 2020; 30:925-933.

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Record number: 28534