Phylum "Candidatus Giovannonibacteria"

Name: "Candidatus Giovannonibacteria" Brown et al. 2015

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: N.L. neut. pl. n. Giovannonibacteria, Named after Stephen Giovannoni who recevied the ISME Jim Tiedje Award in 2012.

Gender: neuter

Effective publication: Brown CT, Hug LA, Thomas BC, Sharon I, Castelle CJ, Singh A, Wilkins MJ, Wrighton KC, Williams KH, Banfield JF. Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria. Nature 2015; 523:208-211. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Candidatus list no. 5. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5821.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Giovannoniibacteriota" corrig. Brown et al. 2015

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Record number: 856

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