Name: "Qingjiangonema" Cui et al. 2024

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Chinese Qingjiang, name of a river running through the fossil locality; Gr. neut. n. nêma, thread; N.L. neut. n. Qingjiangonema, thread-forming Qingjiang bacterium

Gender: neuter (stem: Qingjiangonemat-)

Type species: "Qingjiangonema cambria" Cui et al. 2024

Original publication: Cui L, Zhu K, Li R, Chang C, Wu L, Liu W, Fu D, Liu P, Qiu H, Tang G, et al. The Cambrian microfossil Qingjiangonema reveals the co-evolution of sulfate-reducing bacteria and the oxygenation of Earth's surface. Sci Bull (Beijing) 2024; 69:1486-1494. 🇨🇳

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cui et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the phylum Desulfobacterota Waite et al. 2023. Publication: Cui L, Zhu K, Li R, Chang C, Wu L, Liu W, Fu D, Liu P, Qiu H, Tang G, et al. The Cambrian microfossil Qingjiangonema reveals the co-evolution of sulfate-reducing bacteria and the oxygenation of Earth's surface. Sci Bull (Beijing) 2024; 69:1486-1494. 🇨🇳

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Qingjiangonema cambria" Cui et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Thermodesulfobacteriota, not assigned to family]

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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