Name: "Candidatus Synchoanobacter obligatus" Needham et al. 2022

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: o.bli.ga’tus. L. masc. part. adj. obligatus, bound by obligation

Gender: masculine

Type strain: Comchoano-2

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: OM801197 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Needham DM, Poirier C, Bachy C, George EE, Wilken S, Yung CCM, Limardo AJ, Morando M, Sudek L, Malmstrom RR, et al. The microbiome of a bacterivorous marine choanoflagellate contains a resource-demanding obligate bacterial associate. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:1466-1479.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Synchoanobacter" Needham et al. 2022. Publication: Needham DM, Poirier C, Bachy C, George EE, Wilken S, Yung CCM, Limardo AJ, Morando M, Sudek L, Malmstrom RR, et al. The microbiome of a bacterivorous marine choanoflagellate contains a resource-demanding obligate bacterial associate. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:1466-1479.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Comchoanobacter obligatus from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Synchoanobacter" Needham et al. 2022

Assigned by: Needham DM, Poirier C, Bachy C, George EE, Wilken S, Yung CCM, Limardo AJ, Morando M, Sudek L, Malmstrom RR, et al. The microbiome of a bacterivorous marine choanoflagellate contains a resource-demanding obligate bacterial associate. Nat Microbiol 2022; 7:1466-1479.

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Record number: 30037