Name: "Mucibacterium" Liu et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Mu.ci.bac.te’ri.um. L. masc. n. mucus, slime; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Mucibacterium, a bacterium from mucus

Gender: neuter (stem: Mucibacteri-)

Type species: "Mucibacterium intestinale" Liu et al. 2020

Original publication: Liu C, Zhou N, Du MX, Sun YT, Wang K, Wang YJ, Li DH, Yu HY, Song Y, Bai BB, et al. The Mouse Gut Microbial Biobank expands the coverage of cultured bacteria. Nat Commun 2020; 11:79. 🇨🇳

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Mucobacterium".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CGMCC: 1.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Muribacterium 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
    "Mucibacterium intestinale" Liu et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Clostridia, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 70573