Name: "Candidatus Symbiopectobacterium" Martinson et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Sym.bi.o.pec.to.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. masc./fem. adj. symbios, companion, partner; N.L. neut. n. Pectobacterium, a bacterial genus; N.L. neut. n. Symbiopectobacterium, a symbiotic relative of Pectobacterium

Gender: neuter (stem: Symbiopectobacteri-)

Original publication: Martinson VG, Gawryluk RMR, Gowen BE, Curtis CI, Jaenike J, Perlman SJ. Multiple origins of obligate nematode and insect symbionts by a clade of bacteria closely related to plant pathogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:31979-31986.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Martinson et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Martinson VG, Gawryluk RMR, Gowen BE, Curtis CI, Jaenike J, Perlman SJ. Multiple origins of obligate nematode and insect symbionts by a clade of bacteria closely related to plant pathogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:31979-31986.
  • 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Symbiopectobacterium Nadal-Jimenez et al. 2022.

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Record number: 28507