Name: "Candidatus Magnetobacterium" Murray and Stackebrandt 1995

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ma.gne.to.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. masc. n. Magnês (gen. Magnêtos), a magnet; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Magnetobacterium, a magnetic rod

Gender: neuter (stem: Magnetobacteri-)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Murray RG, Stackebrandt E. Taxonomic note: implementation of the provisional status Candidatus for incompletely described procaryotes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:186-187.

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)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium" Spring et al. 1993	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium" Chuvochina et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith (2002) assigned this genus to the order Geovibriales Cavalier-Smith 2002. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family "Candidatus Magnetobacteriaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023. 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.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium casense" corrig. Lin et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium casensis" Lin et al. 2014	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Magnetobacterium cryptolimnobacter" Zhang et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Nitrospiraceae Garrity and Holt 2022

Assigned by: Goker M. Filling the gaps: missing taxon names at the ranks of class, order and family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5638.

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