Name: "Candidatus Tarhunnaea" Williams et al. 2024

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Tar.hun.nae’a. N.L. fem. n. Tarhunnaea, Hittite Tarḫunna, god of the weather, in reference to the hostile weather of Antarctica

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Tarhunnae-), tar-hun-NA͡E-a

Type species: "Candidatus Tarhunnaea remota" Williams et al. 2024

Original publication: Williams TJ, Allen MA, Ray AE, Benaud N, Chelliah DS, Albanese D, Donati C, Selbmann L, Coleine C, Ferrari BC. Novel endolithic bacteria of phylum Chloroflexota reveal a myriad of potential survival strategies in the Antarctic desert. Appl Environ Microbiol 2024; 90:e0226423.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class "Candidatus Tarhunnaeia" Williams et al. 2024. Publication: Williams TJ, Allen MA, Ray AE, Benaud N, Chelliah DS, Albanese D, Donati C, Selbmann L, Coleine C, Ferrari BC. Novel endolithic bacteria of phylum Chloroflexota reveal a myriad of potential survival strategies in the Antarctic desert. Appl Environ Microbiol 2024; 90:e0226423.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Tarhunnaia".

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Tarhunnaea duricola" Williams et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Tarhunnaea remota" Williams et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Tarhunnaeia, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 45006