Name: "Candidatus Thermoproauctor" Colman et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ther.mo.pro.auc’tor. Gr. fem. adj. thermê, heat; L. masc. n. proauctor, ancestor, founder; N.L. masc. n. Thermoproauctor, ancient thermophile

Gender: masculine (stem: Thermoproauctor-)

Original publication: Colman DR, Jay ZJ, Inskeep WP, Jennings Rd, Maas KR, Rusch DB, Takacs-Vesbach CD. Novel, Deep-Branching Heterotrophic Bacterial Populations Recovered from Thermal Spring Metagenomes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:304.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

Parent taxon: [Caldipriscota, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 9283