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Genus "Candidatus Vicinibacter"
Name: "Candidatus Vicinibacter" Kondrotaite et al. 2022
Etymology: Vi.ci.ni.bac’ter. L. masc. n. vicinus, close; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Vicinibacter, a rod-shaped bacterium often attached to other bacterial clusters
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Vicinibacter-), wi-ki-ni-BAK-ter
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Original publication:
Kondrotaite Z, Valk LC, Petriglieri F, Singleton C, Nierychlo M, Dueholm MKD, Nielsen PH. Diversity and Ecophysiology of the Genus OLB8 and Other Abundant Uncultured Saprospiraceae Genera in Global Wastewater Treatment Systems. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:917553. 
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Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)
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Notes:
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Bowman JP, Hugo C, Nicholson A, Hahnke R, Lau EF, Holmes B, Sutcliffe I. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6144. 🇦🇺
- 🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).
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🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.
Publication:
Bowman JP, Hugo C, Nicholson A, Hahnke R, Lau EF, Holmes B, Sutcliffe I. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6144.
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Vicinibacter affinis" Kondrotaite et al. 2022 not validly published preferred name "Candidatus Vicinibacter proximus" Kondrotaite et al. 2022 not validly published preferred name
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Parent taxon: Saprospiraceae Krieg et al. 2012
Assigned by:
Kondrotaite Z, Valk LC, Petriglieri F, Singleton C, Nierychlo M, Dueholm MKD, Nielsen PH. Diversity and Ecophysiology of the Genus OLB8 and Other Abundant Uncultured Saprospiraceae Genera in Global Wastewater Treatment Systems. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:917553. 🇩🇰
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Record number: 29515
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