Genus "Candidatus Obscuribacter"

Name: "Candidatus Obscuribacter" Soo et al. 2014

Category, proposed as: genus, Candidatus

Etymology: Obs.cu.ri.bac’ter. L. masc. adj. obscurus, dark; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; from Gr. neut. n. baktron, rod; N.L. masc. n. Obscuribacter, a bacterium found in the dark

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Obscuribacter-), obs-ku-ri-BAK-ter

Type species: "Candidatus Obscuribacter phosphatis" Soo et al. 2014

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Soo RM, Skennerton CT, Sekiguchi Y, Imelfort M, Paech SJ, Dennis PG, Steen JA, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1031-1045. 🇦🇺

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Obscuribacter" Chuvochina et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not pro-validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Obscuribacterales" Soo et al. 2014. Publication: Soo RM, Skennerton CT, Sekiguchi Y, Imelfort M, Paech SJ, Dennis PG, Steen JA, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1031-1045. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 Soo et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Obscuribacterales" Soo et al. 2014. Publication: Soo RM, Skennerton CT, Sekiguchi Y, Imelfort M, Paech SJ, Dennis PG, Steen JA, Parks DH, Tyson GW, Hugenholtz P. An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1031-1045. 🇦🇺
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Obscuribacter" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Obscuribac".

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 Obscuribacter phosphatis" Soo et al. 2014	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Obscuribacteraceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

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