Name: "Candidatus Protoclostridium" Glendinning et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Pro.to.clos.tri’di.um. Gr. masc. adj. prôtos, first; N.L. neut. dim. n. Clostridium, a genus name; N.L. neut. dim. n. Protoclostridium, a new organism related to the genus Clostridium

Gender: neuter (stem: Protoclostridi-)

Type species: "Candidatus Protoclostridium gallicola" Glendinning et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Glendinning L, Stewart RD, Pallen MJ, Watson KA, Watson M. Author Correction: Assembly of hundreds of novel bacterial genomes from the chicken caecum. Genome Biol 2021; 22:60.

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧍 The distinct name Alloclostridium from the same publication has a similar spelling. — 🧍 The distinct name Cryptoclostridium from the same publication has a similar spelling. — 🧍 The distinct name Neoclostridium from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Protoclostridium gallicola" Glendinning et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Protoclostridium intestinavium" Glendinning et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Protoclostridium stercorigallinarum" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Clostridia, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 35574