Species "Candidatus Ovatibacter antiquus"

Name: "Candidatus Ovatibacter antiquus" corrig. Dirren and Posch 2016

Category, proposed as: species, Candidatus

Etymology: an.ti’quus. L. masc. adj. antiquus, ancient

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: o-wa-ti-BAK-ter an-TI-kwuus, masculine

Nomenclatural type: 130D_8_56 + Consensus; symbiont of N. delicatula strain G

16S rRNA gene: LN875061 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Dirren S, Posch T. Promiscuous and specific bacterial symbiont acquisition in the amoeboid genus Nuclearia (Opisthokonta). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2016; 92:0. 🇨🇭

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Ovatusbacter abovo" Dirren and Posch 2016	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Ovatibacter" corrig. Dirren and Posch 2016. Publication: Dirren S, Posch T. Promiscuous and specific bacterial symbiont acquisition in the amoeboid genus Nuclearia (Opisthokonta). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2016; 92:0. 🇨🇭
  • 🧍 This species was confirmed as the type species of its monotypic genus in Appendix 1 of Candidatus List No. 6.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Ovatibacter" corrig. Dirren and Posch 2016

Assigned by: Dirren S, Posch T. Promiscuous and specific bacterial symbiont acquisition in the amoeboid genus Nuclearia (Opisthokonta). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2016; 92:0. 🇨🇭

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Record number: 22167

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