Name: "Candidatus Nucleicoccus kirbyi" corrig. Sato et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: kir’by.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. kirbyi, named after Harold Kirby, the microbiologist who discovered the bacteria of Trichonympha protists in termites

Gender: masculine

Type strain: RsTaN-K2

16S rRNA gene: AB826705 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Sato T, Kuwahara H, Fujita K, Noda S, Kihara K, Yamada A, Ohkuma M, Hongoh Y. Intranuclear verrucomicrobial symbionts and evidence of lateral gene transfer to the host protist in the termite gut. ISME J 2014; 8:1008-1019.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Nucleococcus kirbyi" Sato et al. 2014	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Nucleicoccus" corrig. Sato et al. 2014

Assigned by: Sato T, Kuwahara H, Fujita K, Noda S, Kihara K, Yamada A, Ohkuma M, Hongoh Y. Intranuclear verrucomicrobial symbionts and evidence of lateral gene transfer to the host protist in the termite gut. ISME J 2014; 8:1008-1019.

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Record number: 22165