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Genus "Maccoyibacter"
Name: "Maccoyibacter" Hitch et al. 2025
Etymology: Mac.co.yi.bac’ter. N.L. gen. fem. n. Maccoyae, referring to the immunologist Kathy McCoy; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Maccoyibacter, a rod-, shaped bacterium named after the immunologist Kathy McCoy, for her many scientific contributions in the field of microbe-host interactions
Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Maccoyibacter-), mak-ko-yi-BAK-ter
Type species: "Maccoyibacter intestinihominis" Hitch et al. 2025
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Original publication:
Hitch TCA, Masson JM, Pauvert C, Bosch J, Nuchtern S, Treichel NS, Baloh M, Razavi S, Afrizal A, Kousetzi N, et al. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nat Commun 2025; 16:4203. 
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Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Maccoyibacter intestinihominis" Hitch et al. 2025 not validly published preferred name
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Parent taxon: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010
Assigned by:
Hitch TCA, Masson JM, Pauvert C, Bosch J, Nuchtern S, Treichel NS, Baloh M, Razavi S, Afrizal A, Kousetzi N, et al. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nat Commun 2025; 16:4203. 🇩🇪
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Record number: 65224
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