Name: "Candidatus Protoclostridium gallicola" Glendinning et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: gal.li’co.la. L. masc. n. gallus, a chicken; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, dweller; from L. masc./fem. n. incola, an inhabitant; N.L. masc./fem. n. gallicola, an inhabitant of chickens (nominative in apposition)

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: pro-to-klos-TRI-di-um gal-LI-ko-la, neuter

Nomenclatural type: Chicken24mag120

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: CAJFLE010000009 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Glendinning L, Stewart RD, Pallen MJ, Watson KA, Watson M. Author Correction: Assembly of hundreds of novel bacterial genomes from the chicken caecum. Genome Biol 2021; 22:60. 🇬🇧

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Protoclostridium" Glendinning et al. 2021. Publication: Glendinning L, Stewart RD, Pallen MJ, Watson KA, Watson M. Author Correction: Assembly of hundreds of novel bacterial genomes from the chicken caecum. Genome Biol 2021; 22:60. 🇬🇧
  • 🧍 This species chosen by its authors as the type species of its non-monotypic genus was confirmed as the type species in Appendix 2 of Candidatus List No. 7.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Protoclostridium" Glendinning et al. 2021

Assigned by: Glendinning L, Stewart RD, Pallen MJ, Watson KA, Watson M. Author Correction: Assembly of hundreds of novel bacterial genomes from the chicken caecum. Genome Biol 2021; 22:60. 🇬🇧

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