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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter aalborgensis" Albertsen et al. 2016	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter delftensis" Rubio-Rincon et al. 2019	not validly published
    "Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis" Hesselmann et al. 1999	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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