Name: "Candidatus Acutalibacter ornithocaccae" Gilroy et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: or.ni.tho.cac’cae. Gr. masc./fem. n. ornis ornithos, bird; Gr. fem. n. kakkê, faeces; N.L. gen. fem. n. ornithocaccae, of bird faeces

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ChiBcolR8-3208

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

Original publication: Gilroy R, Ravi A, Getino M, Pursley I, Horton DL, Alikhan NF, Baker D, Gharbi K, Hall N, Watson M, et al. Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture. PeerJ 2021; 9:e10941.

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)

Parent taxon: Acutalibacter Lagkouvardos et al. 2016

Assigned by: Gilroy R, Ravi A, Getino M, Pursley I, Horton DL, Alikhan NF, Baker D, Gharbi K, Hall N, Watson M, et al. Extensive microbial diversity within the chicken gut microbiome revealed by metagenomics and culture. PeerJ 2021; 9:e10941.

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Record number: 30554