Name: "Candidatus Opimibacter" Kondrotaite et al. 2022

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: O.pi.mi.bac’ter. L. masc. adj. opimus, fat; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Opimibacter, a fat rod-shaped bacterium

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Opimibacter-), o-pi-mi-BAK-ter

Type species: "Candidatus Opimibacter iunctus" Kondrotaite et al. 2022

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Kondrotaite Z, Valk LC, Petriglieri F, Singleton C, Nierychlo M, Dueholm MKD, Nielsen PH. Diversity and Ecophysiology of the Genus OLB8 and Other Abundant Uncultured Saprospiraceae Genera in Global Wastewater Treatment Systems. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:917553. 🇩🇰

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Hugo C, Nicholson A, Hahnke R, Lau EF, Holmes B, Sutcliffe I. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6144. 🇦🇺
  • 🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).

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 Opimibacter iunctus" Kondrotaite et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Opimibacter skivensis" Kondrotaite et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Saprospiraceae Krieg et al. 2012

Assigned by: Kondrotaite Z, Valk LC, Petriglieri F, Singleton C, Nierychlo M, Dueholm MKD, Nielsen PH. Diversity and Ecophysiology of the Genus OLB8 and Other Abundant Uncultured Saprospiraceae Genera in Global Wastewater Treatment Systems. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:917553. 🇩🇰

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Record number: 29514