Name: "Candidatus Stygiibacter" corrig. Williams et al. 2021
Category, proposed as: genus, Candidatus
Etymology:Sty.gi.i.bac’ter.L. masc. adj.stygius, of the Styx, River in Hades, in Greek mythology, from which the modern adj. Stygian derives, meaning extremely dark and gloomy; N.L. masc. n.bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n.Stygiibacter, bacterium from the gloom
Effective publication:
Williams TJ, Allen MA, Berengut JF, Cavicchioli R. Shedding Light on Microbial "Dark Matter": Insights Into Novel Cloacimonadota and Omnitrophota From an Antarctic Lake. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:741077. 🇦🇺
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
🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Stygibacter" Williams et al. 2021.Publication:
Williams TJ, Allen MA, Berengut JF, Cavicchioli R. Shedding Light on Microbial "Dark Matter": Insights Into Novel Cloacimonadota and Omnitrophota From an Antarctic Lake. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:741077. 🇦🇺
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