Name: "Candidatus Opitulatrix" Kästle Silva and Brune 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: O.pi.tu.la’trix. N.L. fem. n. Opitulatrix, a female helper, maid

Gender: feminine (stem: Opitulatric-)

Type species: "Candidatus Opitulatrix roisinitermitis" Kästle Silva and Brune 2025

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Silva JK, Herve V, Mies US, Platt K, Brune A. A Novel Lineage of Endosymbiotic Actinomycetales: Genome Reduction and Acquisition of New Functions in Bifidobacteriaceae Associated With Termite Gut Flagellates. Environ Microbiol 2025; 27:e70010. 🇩🇪

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Opitulatrix cubana" Kästle Silva and Brune 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Opitulatrix roisinitermitis" Kästle Silva and Brune 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Bifidobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997

Assigned by: Silva JK, Herve V, Mies US, Platt K, Brune A. A Novel Lineage of Endosymbiotic Actinomycetales: Genome Reduction and Acquisition of New Functions in Bifidobacteriaceae Associated With Termite Gut Flagellates. Environ Microbiol 2025; 27:e70010. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 64864