Name: Aquisphaera Bondoso et al. 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.qui.sphae’ra. L. fem. n. aqua, water; Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, a ball, globe, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Aquisphaera, a spherical bacterium living in freshwater

Gender: feminine

Type species: Aquisphaera giovannonii Bondoso et al. 2011

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bondoso J, Albuquerque L, Nobre MF, Lobo-da-Cunha A, da Costa MS, Lage OM. Aquisphaera giovannonii gen. nov., sp. nov., a planctomycete isolated from a freshwater aquarium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2844-2850.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:476-477.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Kumar et al. 2021 Kumar G, Lhingjakim KL, Uppada J, Ahamad S, Kumar D, Kashif GM, Sasikala C, Ramana CV. Aquisphaera insulae sp. nov., a new member in the family Isosphaeraceae, isolated from the floating island of Loktak lake and emended description of the genus Aquisphaera. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:1465-1477.
    Notes:
    • As of 2021-09-08 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Planctomycetaceae Schlesner and Stackebrandt 1987. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aquisphaera giovannonii Bondoso et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Aquisphaera insulae" Kumar et al. 2021	not validly published

Parent taxon: Isosphaeraceae Kulichevskaya et al. 2016

Assigned by: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AA, Suzina NE, Rijpstra WIC, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dedysh SN. Paludisphaera borealis gen. nov., sp. nov., a hydrolytic planctomycete from northern wetlands, and proposal of Isosphaeraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:837-844.

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