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Genus Ventrimonas
Name: Ventrimonas Hitch et al. 2025
Etymology: Ven.tri’mo.nas. L. masc. n. venter, the belly; L. fem. n. monas, a monad; N.L. fem. n. Ventrimonas, a microbe associated with the belly (intestines/faeces)
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Ventrimonad-), wen-TRI-mo-nas
Type species: Ventrimonas faecis Hitch et al. 2025
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication:
Hitch TCA, Masson JM, Pauvert C, Bosch J, Nuchtern S, Treichel NS, Baloh M, Razavi S, Afrizal A, Kousetzi N, et al. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nat Commun 2025; 16:4203. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of "Candidatus Ventrimonas" Gilroy et al. 2021.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; LMG: 1.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Ventrimonas faecis Hitch et al. 2025 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010
Assigned by:
Hitch TCA, Masson JM, Pauvert C, Bosch J, Nuchtern S, Treichel NS, Baloh M, Razavi S, Afrizal A, Kousetzi N, et al. HiBC: a publicly available collection of bacterial strains isolated from the human gut. Nat Commun 2025; 16:4203.
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Record number: 65582
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