Name: "Candidatus Amunia macphersoniae" Montgomery et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: mac.pher.so’ni.ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. macphersoniae, in honour of Australian Subantarctic voyager and pioneer Hope Macpherson

Gender: feminine

Type strain: Dormibacteraeota bacterium; Dormiibacterota bacterium; Mitchell_Peninsula_5; na

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

Original publication: Montgomery K, Williams TJ, Brettle M, Berengut JF, Zhang E, Zaugg J, Hugenholtz P, Ferrari BC. Persistence and resistance: survival mechanisms of Candidatus Dormibacterota from nutrient-poor Antarctic soils. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:4276-4294.

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)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Amunia" Montgomery et al. 2021. Publication: Montgomery K, Williams TJ, Brettle M, Berengut JF, Zhang E, Zaugg J, Hugenholtz P, Ferrari BC. Persistence and resistance: survival mechanisms of Candidatus Dormibacterota from nutrient-poor Antarctic soils. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:4276-4294.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Amunia" Montgomery et al. 2021

Assigned by: Montgomery K, Williams TJ, Brettle M, Berengut JF, Zhang E, Zaugg J, Hugenholtz P, Ferrari BC. Persistence and resistance: survival mechanisms of Candidatus Dormibacterota from nutrient-poor Antarctic soils. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:4276-4294.

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Record number: 35614