Name: "Candidatus Nanopusillus" Wurch et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Na.no.pu.sil’lus. Gr. masc. n. nânos, a dwarf; L. masc. adj. pusillus, very small; N.L. masc. n. Nanopusillus, a very small member of the Nanoarchaeota

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Nanopusill-), na-no-pu-SIL-lus

Type species: "Candidatus Nanopusillus acidilobi" Wurch et al. 2016

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Wurch L, Giannone RJ, Belisle BS, Swift C, Utturkar S, Hettich RL, Reysenbach AL, Podar M. Genomics-informed isolation and characterization of a symbiotic Nanoarchaeota system from a terrestrial geothermal environment. Nat Commun 2016; 7:12115. 🇺🇸

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

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: 5

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: 22269
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