Species "Candidatus Desulfovibrio kirbyi"

Name: "Candidatus Desulfovibrio kirbyi" Takeuchi et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: kir’by.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. kirbyi, of Kirby, named after Harold Kirby, who reported the presence of this bacterium as ‘peripheral granules’ in 1932

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ZnDsv-02

Original publication: Takeuchi M, Kuwahara H, Murakami T, Takahashi K, Kajitani R, Toyoda A, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Hongoh Y. Parallel reductive genome evolution in Desulfovibrio ectosymbionts independently acquired by Trichonympha protists in the termite gut. ISME J 2020; 14:2288-2301.

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)

Parent taxon: Desulfovibrio Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Takeuchi M, Kuwahara H, Murakami T, Takahashi K, Kajitani R, Toyoda A, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Hongoh Y. Parallel reductive genome evolution in Desulfovibrio ectosymbionts independently acquired by Trichonympha protists in the termite gut. ISME J 2020; 14:2288-2301.

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Record number: 28693
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