Name: "Candidatus Kapaibacterium" corrig. Kantor et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ka.pa.i.bac.te’ri.um. Kapa, based on Motse Kapa, the name of Cape Town in the Sesotho language; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Kapaibacterium, a rod from Cape Town

Gender: neuter (stem: Kapaibacteri-)

Original publication: Kantor RS, van Zyl AW, van Hille RP, Thomas BC, Harrison ST, Banfield JF. Bioreactor microbial ecosystems for thiocyanate and cyanide degradation unravelled with genome-resolved metagenomics. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:4929-4941.

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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Kapaibacterium" Chuvochina et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Kapabacteria" Kantor et al. 2015	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Kapaibacteriota" corrig. Kantor et al. 2015. Publication: Kantor RS, van Zyl AW, van Hille RP, Thomas BC, Harrison ST, Banfield JF. Bioreactor microbial ecosystems for thiocyanate and cyanide degradation unravelled with genome-resolved metagenomics. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:4929-4941.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Kapaibacteriales" 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: "Kapibacterium".

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 Kapaibacterium thiocyanatum" corrig. Kantor et al. 2015	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Kapaibacteriaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Assigned by: 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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