Genus "Candidatus Protoclostridium"

Name: "Candidatus Protoclostridium" Glendinning et al. 2021

Category, proposed as: genus, 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, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Protoclostridi-), pro-to-klos-TRI-di-um

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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective 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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-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	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Protoclostridium intestinavium" Glendinning et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Protoclostridium stercorigallinarum" Gilroy et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: [Clostridia, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 35574