Name: "Candidatus Phosphitivorax" Figueroa et al. 2018

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Phos.phi.ti.vo.rax. N.L. masc. n. Phosphitivorax, “voracious phosphite consumer”; N.L. n. phosphitis, phosphite; L. adj. vorax, voracious

Gender: masculine (stem: Phosphitivorac-)

Type species: "Candidatus Phosphitivorax anaerolimi" Figueroa et al. 2018

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Figueroa IA, Barnum TP, Somasekhar PY, Carlstrom CI, Engelbrektson AL, Coates JD. Metagenomics-guided analysis of microbial chemolithoautotrophic phosphite oxidation yields evidence of a seventh natural CO2 fixation pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E92-E101.

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)

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 Phosphitivorax anaerolimi" Figueroa et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Phosphitivorax butyraticus" Hao et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Deltaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 12877