Name: "Candidatus Zophobacter" Williams et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Zo.pho.bac’ter. Gr. neut. n. zophos, darkness, gloom; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Zophobacter, bacterium from the darkness

Gender: masculine (stem: Zophobacter-)

Type species: "Candidatus Zophobacter franzmannii" 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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Zophobacter franzmannii" 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: 35593