Name: "Candidatus Praeruminimicrobium" Mies and Brune 2024

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Prae.ru.mi.ni.mi.cro’bi.um. L. prep. prae, before; N.L. neut. n. Ruminimicrobium, a microbe that occurs in the rumen; N.L. neut. n. Praeruminimicrobium, a bacterial genus ancestral to Ruminimicrobium

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Praeruminimicrobi-), pra͡e-ru-mi-ni-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: "Candidatus Praeruminimicrobium purgamenti" Mies and Brune 2024

Original publication: Mies US, Herve V, Kropp T, Platt K, Sillam-Dusses D, Sobotnik J, Brune A. Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia-rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates. mBio 2024; 15:e0082624. 🇩🇪

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: 1

Parent taxon: Endomicrobiaceae Zheng et al. 2018

Assigned by: Mies US, Herve V, Kropp T, Platt K, Sillam-Dusses D, Sobotnik J, Brune A. Genome reduction and horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of Endomicrobia-rise and fall of an intracellular symbiosis with termite gut flagellates. mBio 2024; 15:e0082624. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 48981

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