Name: "Candidatus Accumulibacter" Hesselmann et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ac.cu.mu.li.bac’ter. N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Accumulibacter, a rod-shaped bacterium which accumulates

Gender: masculine (stem: Accumulibacter-)

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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original 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

• 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 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: 14

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter aalborgensis" Albertsen et al. 2016	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter adiacens" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter adjunctus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter affinis" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter appositus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter cognatus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter conexus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter delftensis" Rubio-Rincón et al. 2019	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter meliphilus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis" Hesselmann et al. 1999	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter proximus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter regalis" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter similis" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter vicinus" Petriglieri et al. 2022	not validly published

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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