Name: "Candidatus Frackibacter" Booker et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Fra.cki.bac’ter. N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Frackibacter, a rod from fracking (hydraulic fracturing)

Gender: masculine (stem: Frackibacter-)

Original publication: Booker AE, Johnston MD, Daly RA, Wrighton KC, Wilkins MJ. Draft Genome Sequences of Multiple Frackibacter Strains Isolated from Hydraulically Fractured Shale Environments. Genome Announc 2017; 5:0.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Acetohalobiaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Yadav et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the order Halanaerobiales corrig. Rainey and Zhilina 1995. Publication: Yadav A, Vilcaez J, Farag IF, Johnson B, Mueller K, Youssef NH, Elshahed MS. Candidatus Mcinerneyibacterium aminivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., the first representative of the candidate phylum Mcinerneyibacteriota phyl. nov. recovered from a high temperature, high salinity tertiary oil reservoir in north central Oklahoma, USA. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126057.
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

Parent taxon: Halobacteroidaceae Zhilina and Rainey 1995

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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Record number: 22246