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 (stem: Aquisphaer-)

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. Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 38. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5923.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• 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.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 1; NBRC: 1; CECT: 1; DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

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

• 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. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

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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