Name: "Candidatus Desulfopertinax cowenii" Jungbluth et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: co.we’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. cowenii, inhonour of James Cowen, who first detected this lineage in deep marine biosphere studies

Gender: masculine

Nomenclatural type: modA32

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Original publication: Jungbluth SP, Glavina Del Rio T, Tringe SG, Stepanauskas R, Rappe MS. Genomic comparisons of a bacterial lineage that inhabits both marine and terrestrial deep subsurface systems. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3134.

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)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Desulfopertinax" Jungbluth et al. 2017. Publication: Jungbluth SP, Glavina Del Rio T, Tringe SG, Stepanauskas R, Rappe MS. Genomic comparisons of a bacterial lineage that inhabits both marine and terrestrial deep subsurface systems. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3134.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Desulfopertinax" Jungbluth et al. 2017

Assigned by: Jungbluth SP, Glavina Del Rio T, Tringe SG, Stepanauskas R, Rappe MS. Genomic comparisons of a bacterial lineage that inhabits both marine and terrestrial deep subsurface systems. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3134.

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Record number: 990