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Genus Alienimonas
Name: Alienimonas Boersma et al. 2021
Etymology: A.li.e.ni’mo.nas. L. masc. adj. alienus, strange, foreign; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Alienimonas, an alien bacterial unit
Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Alienimonad-), a-li-e-NI-mo-nas
Type species: Alienimonas californiensis Boersma et al. 2021
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication:
Boersma AS, Kallscheuer N, Wiegand S, Rast P, Peeters SH, Mesman RJ, Heuer A, Boedeker C, Jetten MSM, Rohde M, et al. Alienimonas californiensis gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel Planctomycete isolated from the kelp forest in Monterey Bay. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:1751-1766. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 198. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4688.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Alienimonas californiensis Boersma et al. 2021 validly published under the ICNP correct name Alienimonas chondri Vitorino et al. 2021 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Planctomycetaceae Schlesner and Stackebrandt 1987
Assigned by:
Boersma AS, Kallscheuer N, Wiegand S, Rast P, Peeters SH, Mesman RJ, Heuer A, Boedeker C, Jetten MSM, Rohde M, et al. Alienimonas californiensis gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel Planctomycete isolated from the kelp forest in Monterey Bay. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:1751-1766.
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Record number: 18902
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