Name: "Candidatus Cloacimonadales" Williams et al. 2021

Category: Order

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Clo.a.ci.mo.na.da’les. N.L. fem. n. Cloacimonas, a Canddiatus genus name; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Cloacimonadales, the Candidatus Cloacimonas order

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: klo-a-ki-mo-na-DA-les, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Cloacimonas" corrig. Pelletier et al. 2008

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. 🇦🇺

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-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: 3

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Cloacimonadia" Williams et al. 2021

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

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Record number: 36042
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