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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Candidatus Lachnocurva"

Name: "Candidatus Lachnocurva" Holm et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Lach.no.cur’va. Gr. masc. n. lachnos, wool; L. masc. adj. curvus, curved; N.L. fem. n. Lachnocurva, curved organism belonging to the Lachnospiraceae

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Lachnocurv-), lakh-no-KUR-wa

Type species: "Candidatus Lachnocurva vaginae" Holm et al. 2020

Effective publication: Holm JB, France MT, Ma B, McComb E, Robinson CK, Mehta A, Tallon LJ, Brotman RM, Ravel J. Comparative Metagenome-Assembled Genome Analysis of "Candidatus Lachnocurva vaginae", Formerly Known as Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Bacterium-1 (BVAB1). Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2020; 10:117. 🇺🇸

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

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

Parent taxon: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010

Assigned by: Holm JB, France MT, Ma B, McComb E, Robinson CK, Mehta A, Tallon LJ, Brotman RM, Ravel J. Comparative Metagenome-Assembled Genome Analysis of "Candidatus Lachnocurva vaginae", Formerly Known as Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Bacterium-1 (BVAB1). Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2020; 10:117. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 28496
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