Name: "Candidatus Tenebribacter" Williams et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Te.ne.bri.bac’ter. L. fem. n. tenebra, darkness; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Tenebribacter, bacterium from the darkness

Gender: masculine (stem: Tenebribacter-)

Type species: "Candidatus Tenebribacter burtonii" Williams et al. 2021

Original 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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Tenebribacter burtonii" Williams et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Tenebribacter davisii" Williams et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Tenebribacter mawsonii" Williams et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Cloacimonadales, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 35584