Name: "Candidatus Wirthibacter" Probst et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Wir.thi.bac’ter. N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Wirthibacter, a rod named after Prof. Reinhard Wirth of the University of Regensburg, for his contributions in the field of chemoautotrophs and swimming behaviour

Gender: masculine (stem: Wirthibacter-)

Type species: "Candidatus Wirthibacter wanneri" Probst et al. 2017

Original publication: Probst AJ, Castelle CJ, Singh A, Brown CT, Anantharaman K, Sharon I, Hug LA, Burstein D, Emerson JB, Thomas BC, et al. Genomic resolution of a cold subsurface aquifer community provides metabolic insights for novel microbes adapted to high CO2 concentrations. Environ Microbiol 2017; 19:459-474.

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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Wirthbacteria" Hug et al. 2016. Publication: Hug LA, Baker BJ, Anantharaman K, Brown CT, Probst AJ, Castelle CJ, Butterfield CN, Hernsdorf AW, Amano Y, Ise K, et al. A new view of the tree of life. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16048.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Wirthibacterota" corrig. Hug et al. 2016. Publication: Hug LA, Baker BJ, Anantharaman K, Brown CT, Probst AJ, Castelle CJ, Butterfield CN, Hernsdorf AW, Amano Y, Ise K, et al. A new view of the tree of life. Nat Microbiol 2016; 1:16048.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Wirthibacter wanneri" Probst et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Wirthibacterota, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 9370