Name: "Candidatus Mesopelagibacter" Ruiz-Perez et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Me.so.pe.la.gi.bac’ter. Gr. masc. adj. mesos, medium, middle; L. neut. n. pelagus, the open sea; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Mesopelagibacter, a rod from the mesopelagic regions of the sea

Gender: masculine (stem: Mesopelagibacter-)

Type species: "Candidatus Mesopelagibacter carboxydoxydans" Ruiz-Perez et al. 2021

Original publication: Ruiz-Perez CA, Bertagnolli AD, Tsementzi D, Woyke T, Stewart FJ, Konstantinidis KT. Description of Candidatus Mesopelagibacter carboxydoxydans and Candidatus Anoxipelagibacter denitrificans: Nitrate-reducing SAR11 genera that dominate mesopelagic and anoxic marine zones. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126185.

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)

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: [Alphaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 35554
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