Name: "Candidatus Symbiodolus" Wierz et al. 2024

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Sym.bi.o’do.lus. Gr. masc./fem. adj. symbios, companion; L. masc. n. dolus, deceit, malice, deception, also the Roman and Greek daimon that is the personification of deception and fraud; N.L. masc. n. Symbiodolus, in reference to the symbiotic lifestyle and the daimon of trickery, disguise, and deception from Greek and Roman mythology (Dolus), based on the long evasion of the symbiont from scientific investigation

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Symbiodol-), sym-bi-O-do-lus

Type species: "Candidatus Symbiodolus clandestinus" Wierz et al. 2024

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Wierz JC, Dirksen P, Kirsch R, Krusemer R, Weiss B, Pauchet Y, Engl T, Kaltenpoth M. Intracellular symbiont Symbiodolus is vertically transmitted and widespread across insect orders. ISME J 2024; 18:0. 🇩🇪

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Symbiodolus clandestinus" Wierz et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Enterobacterales, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 52286