Name: "Candidatus Termititenax dinenymphae" Utami et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: di.ne.nym’phae. N.L. fem. n. Dinenympha, a genus name of flagellated protists; N.L. gen. fem. n. dinenymphae, of Dinenympha, referring to the host genus

Gender: masculine

Type strain: RsDinE6-01

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

Original publication: Utami YD, Kuwahara H, Igai K, Murakami T, Sugaya K, Morikawa T, Nagura Y, Yuki M, Deevong P, Inoue T, et al. Genome analyses of uncultured TG2/ZB3 bacteria in 'Margulisbacteria' specifically attached to ectosymbiotic spirochetes of protists in the termite gut. ISME J 2019; 13:455-467.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Termititenax" Utami et al. 2019

Assigned by: Utami YD, Kuwahara H, Igai K, Murakami T, Sugaya K, Morikawa T, Nagura Y, Yuki M, Deevong P, Inoue T, et al. Genome analyses of uncultured TG2/ZB3 bacteria in 'Margulisbacteria' specifically attached to ectosymbiotic spirochetes of protists in the termite gut. ISME J 2019; 13:455-467.

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Record number: 13113