Name: "Candidatus Bdellovibrio necator" corrig. Deeg et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: ne.ca’tor. L. masc. n. necator, killer

Gender: masculine

Type strain: Mixed cultures containing “Ca. Bdellovibrio qaytius” and its prey Paraburkholderia fungorum are available upon request from the authors

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Original publication: Deeg CM, Le TT, Zimmer MM, Suttle CA. From the Inside Out: an Epibiotic Bdellovibrio Predator with an Expanded Genomic Complement. J Bacteriol 2020; 202:0.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Bdellovibrio qaytius" Deeg et al. 2020	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

Parent taxon: Bdellovibrio Stolp and Starr 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Deeg CM, Le TT, Zimmer MM, Suttle CA. From the Inside Out: an Epibiotic Bdellovibrio Predator with an Expanded Genomic Complement. J Bacteriol 2020; 202:0.

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Record number: 28591