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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Phylum "Candidatus Mcinerneyibacteriota"

Name: "Candidatus Mcinerneyibacteriota" Yadav et al. 2020

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Mc.i.ner.ney.i.bac.te.ri.o’ta. N.L. neut. pl. n. Macinerneyibacteriia, type class of the phylum; L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ota, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Mcinerneyibacteriota, the phylum of the class Mcinerneyibacteria

Gender: neuter

Type genus: "Candidatus Mcinerneyibacterium" Yadav et al. 2020

Effective publication: Yadav A, Vilcaez J, Farag IF, Johnson B, Mueller K, Youssef NH, Elshahed MS. Candidatus Mcinerneyibacterium aminivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., the first representative of the candidate phylum Mcinerneyibacteriota phyl. nov. recovered from a high temperature, high salinity tertiary oil reservoir in north central Oklahoma, USA. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126057. 🇺🇸

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 Macinerneyibacteriota" corrig. Yadav et al. 2020

Parent taxon: [Bacteria, not assigned to kingdom]

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Record number: 872

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