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Name: "Candidatus Accumulibacter" Hesselmann et al. 1999
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
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
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
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
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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Record number: 521754