Name: "Candidatus Mycolatisynbacter" corrig. Batinovic et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: My.co.la.ti.syn.bac’ter. N.L. fem. n. Mycolata, a group of actinobacteria; Gr. prep. syn, in company with, together with; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Mycolatisynbacter, a rod that grows with members of the Mycolata and lyses them

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Mycolatisynbacter-), my-ko-la-ti-syn-BAK-ter

Type species: "Candidatus Mycolatisynbacter gordoniilyticus" corrig. Batinovic et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Batinovic S, Rose JJA, Ratcliffe J, Seviour RJ, Petrovski S. Cocultivation of an ultrasmall environmental parasitic bacterium with lytic ability against bacteria associated with wastewater foams. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:703-711. 🇦🇺

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

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Mycosynbacter" Batinovic et al. 2021	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Batinovic et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the phylum "Candidatus Saccharimonadota" corrig. Albertsen et al. 2013. Publication: Batinovic S, Rose JJA, Ratcliffe J, Seviour RJ, Petrovski S. Cocultivation of an ultrasmall environmental parasitic bacterium with lytic ability against bacteria associated with wastewater foams. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:703-711. 🇦🇺
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Mycosynbacter" Batinovic et al. 2021. Publication: Batinovic S, Rose JJA, Ratcliffe J, Seviour RJ, Petrovski S. Cocultivation of an ultrasmall environmental parasitic bacterium with lytic ability against bacteria associated with wastewater foams. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:703-711. 🇦🇺

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 Mycolatisynbacter gordoniilyticus" corrig. Batinovic et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: [Nanosynbacteria, not assigned to family]

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 35342