Name: "Candidatus Pantoea formicae" Crosby et al. 2023
Etymology: for’mi.cae. L. gen. fem. n. formicae, of an ant, referring to the ants propagating the fungal gardens from which the isolate used to determine the nomenclatural type was isolated
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Original publication: Crosby KC, Rojas M, Sharma P, Johnson MA, Mazloom R, Kvitko BH, Smits THM, Venter SN, Coutinho TA, Heath LS, et al. Genomic delineation and description of species and within-species lineages in the genus Pantoea. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1254999.
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
Parent taxon: Pantoea Gavini et al. 1989
Assigned by: Crosby KC, Rojas M, Sharma P, Johnson MA, Mazloom R, Kvitko BH, Smits THM, Venter SN, Coutinho TA, Heath LS, et al. Genomic delineation and description of species and within-species lineages in the genus Pantoea. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1254999.
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Record number: 41748