Name: "Candidatus Accumulibacter" Hesselmann et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

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

Gender: masculine

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

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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Notes:
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Accumlibater"; "Accummulibacter".
  • 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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis" Hesselmann et al. 1999	not validly published

Parent taxon: [Betaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]

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