Name: "Candidatus Nanobsidianus" Castelle et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Nan.ob.si.di.a’nus. Gr. masc. n. nânos, a dwarf; L. masc. adj. obsidianus, obsidian; N.L. masc. n. Nanobsidianus, a small organism from Obsidian Pool

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Nanobsidian-), nan-ob-si-di-A-nus

Type species: "Candidatus Nanobsidianus stetteri" Castelle et al. 2015

Effective publication: Castelle CJ, Wrighton KC, Thomas BC, Hug LA, Brown CT, Wilkins MJ, Frischkorn KR, Tringe SG, Singh A, Markillie LM, et al. Genomic expansion of domain archaea highlights roles for organisms from new phyla in anaerobic carbon cycling. Curr Biol 2015; 25:690-701.

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

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Munson-McGee et al. (2015) assigned this genus to the order Sulfolobales Stetter 1989. Publication: Munson-McGee JH, Field EK, Bateson M, Rooney C, Stepanauskas R, Young MJ. Nanoarchaeota, Their Sulfolobales Host, and Nanoarchaeota Virus Distribution across Yellowstone National Park Hot Springs. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:7860-7868.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Nanopusillus" Wurch et al. 2016. Publication: Rinke C, Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Davin AA, Waite DW, Whitman WB, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database. Nat Microbiol 2021; 6:946-959.

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Nanobsidianus stetteri" Munson-McGee et al. 2015	not validly published	synonym
    "Candidatus Nanobsidianus stetteri" Castelle et al. 2015	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Nanobdellaceae Kato et al. 2022

Assigned by: Kato S, Ogasawara A, Itoh T, Sakai HD, Shimizu M, Yuki M, Kaneko M, Takashina T, Ohkuma M. Nanobdella aerobiophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic, obligate ectosymbiotic archaeon, and proposal of Nanobdellaceae fam. nov., Nanobdellales ord. nov. and Nanobdellia class. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5489.

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Record number: 22268