Name: "Candidatus Limenecus" Gilroy et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Lim.en.e’cus. L. masc. n. limus, dung; Gr. masc./fem. adj. enoikos, inhabitant; N.L. masc. n. Limenecus, a microbe associated with faeces

Gender: masculine (stem: Limenec-)

Type species: "Candidatus Limenecus avicola" Gilroy et al. 2021

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Original publication: Gilroy R, Ravi A, Getino M, Pursley I, Horton DL, Alikhan NF, Baker D, Gharbi K, Hall N, Watson M, et al. Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture. PeerJ 2021; 9:e10941.

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧍 The distinct name Fimenecus from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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 Limenecus avicola" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Gastranaerophilaceae" Gilroy et al. 2021

Assigned by: Gilroy R, Ravi A, Getino M, Pursley I, Horton DL, Alikhan NF, Baker D, Gharbi K, Hall N, Watson M, et al. Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture. PeerJ 2021; 9:e10941.

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