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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Candidatus Tenebribacter mawsonii"

Name: "Candidatus Tenebribacter mawsonii" Williams et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: maw.so’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. mawsonii, of Mawson, named after Australian Antarctic explorer and pioneer Sir Douglas Mawson

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … maw-SO-ni-i, masculine

Nomenclatural type: 3300035698_1174

Effective publication: Williams TJ, Allen MA, Berengut JF, Cavicchioli R. Shedding Light on Microbial "Dark Matter": Insights Into Novel Cloacimonadota and Omnitrophota From an Antarctic Lake. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:741077. 🇦🇺

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

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Tenebribacter" Williams et al. 2021

Assigned by: Williams TJ, Allen MA, Berengut JF, Cavicchioli R. Shedding Light on Microbial "Dark Matter": Insights Into Novel Cloacimonadota and Omnitrophota From an Antarctic Lake. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:741077. 🇦🇺

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Record number: 35698
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