Name: "Candidatus Magnetobacterium" Murray and Stackebrandt 1995

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ma.gne.to.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. masc. n. Magnês (gen. Magnêtos), a magnet; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Magnetobacterium, a magnetic rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Magnetobacteri-), ma-n͡gne-to-bak-TE-ri-um

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Pro-valid publication: Murray RG, Stackebrandt E. Taxonomic note: implementation of the provisional status Candidatus for incompletely described procaryotes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:186-187. 🇩🇪

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

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium" Chuvochina et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not pro-validly published
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium" Spring et al. 1993	homotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Magnetobacte".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.

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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium casense" corrig. Lin et al. 2014	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium casensis" Lin et al. 2014	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium cryptolimnobacter" Zhang et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Nitrospiraceae Garrity and Holt 2022

Assigned by: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 42918