Name: "Candidatus Accumulibacter" Hesselmann et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ac.cu.mu.li.bac’ter. L. inf. v. accumulare, to accumulate; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; from N.L. neut. n. bacterium, small rod; N.L. masc. n. Accumulibacter, a rod-shaped bacterium which accumulates

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Accumulibacter-), ak-ku-mu-li-BAK-ter

Type species: "Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis" Hesselmann et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Hesselmann RP, Werlen C, Hahn D, van der Meer JR, Zehnder AJ. Enrichment, phylogenetic analysis and detection of a bacterium that performs enhanced biological phosphate removal in activated sludge. Syst Appl Microbiol 1999; 22:454-465. 🇨🇭

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hesselmann et al. (1999) assigned this genus to the class "Betaproteobacteria". Publication: Hesselmann RP, Werlen C, Hahn D, van der Meer JR, Zehnder AJ. Enrichment, phylogenetic analysis and detection of a bacterium that performs enhanced biological phosphate removal in activated sludge. Syst Appl Microbiol 1999; 22:454-465. 🇨🇭
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Accumlibater"; "Accummulibacter".
  • 🧍 See also Peterson et al. (2008). Publication: Peterson SB, Warnecke F, Madejska J, McMahon KD, Hugenholtz P. Environmental distribution and population biology of Candidatus Accumulibacter, a primary agent of biological phosphorus removal. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:2692-2703. 🇺🇸
  • 🧍 See also Skennerton et al. (2015). Publication: Skennerton CT, Barr JJ, Slater FR, Bond PL, Tyson GW. Expanding our view of genomic diversity in Candidatus Accumulibacter clades. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:1574-1585. 🇦🇺

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: 21

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter aalborgensis" Albertsen et al. 2016	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter adiacens" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter adjunctus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter affinis" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter appositus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter cognatus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter conexus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter contiguus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter delftensis" Rubio-Rincón et al. 2019	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter iunctus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter jenkinsii" Stewart et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter meliphilus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter necessarius" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis" Hesselmann et al. 1999	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter propinquus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter proximus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter regalis" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter similis" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter torridus" Xie et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter tropicus" Xie et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter vicinus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Rhodocyclaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Rubio-Rincon FJ, Weissbrodt DG, Lopez-Vazquez CM, Welles L, Abbas B, Albertsen M, Nielsen PH, van Loosdrecht MCM, Brdjanovic D. "Candidatus Accumulibacter delftensis": A clade IC novel polyphosphate-accumulating organism without denitrifying activity on nitrate. Water Res 2019; 161:136-151. 🇳🇱

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