Genus "Candidatus Accumulibacter"
Name: "Candidatus Accumulibacter" Hesselmann et al. 1999
Etymology: Ac.cu.mu.li.bac’ter. N.L. masc. n. Accumulibacter, a rod-shaped bacterium which accumulates
Type species: "Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis" Hesselmann et al. 1999
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
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Notes:
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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".
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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.
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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.
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: 2
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Accumulibacter delftensis" Rubio-Rincon et al. 2019 not validly published "Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis" Hesselmann et al. 1999 not validly published
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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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