Name: "Candidatus Nanopetraeus" corrig. Crits-Christoph et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Na.no.pe.trae.us. Gr. masc. n. nânos, a dwarf; Gr. masc. adj. petraîos, growing among rocks; N.L. masc. n. Nanopetraeus, small organism growing among rocks

Gender: masculine (stem: Nanopetrae-)

Original publication: Crits-Christoph A, Gelsinger DR, Ma B, Wierzchos J, Ravel J, Davila A, Casero MC, DiRuggiero J. Functional interactions of archaea, bacteria and viruses in a hypersaline endolithic community. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:2064-2077.

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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Nanopetramus" Crits-Christoph et al. 2016	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Halobacteria and Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. Minutes of the joint open meeting, 28 June 2022, Alicante, Spain. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5584.

Parent taxon: [Nanohaloarchaeota, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 21940