Name: "Chloracidobacterium" Tank and Bryant 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Chlor.a.ci.do.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. masc. adj. chlôros, greenish-yellow, pale green; N.L. neut. n. Acidobacterium, a bacterial genus; N.L. neut. n. Chloracidobacterium, a green Acidobacterium

Gender: neuter (stem: Chloracidobacteri-)

Type species: "Chloracidobacterium thermophilum" Tank and Bryant 2015

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Tank M, Bryant DA. Chloracidobacterium thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov.: an anoxygenic microaerophilic chlorophotoheterotrophic acidobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1426-1430.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2343-2344.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Chloracidobacterium" Bryant et al. 2007	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Chloracidobacteriaceae" Saini et al. 2021. Publication: Saini MK, Sebastian A, Shirotori Y, Soulier NT, Garcia Costas AM, Drautz-Moses DI, Schuster SC, Albert I, Haruta S, Hanada S, et al. Genomic and Phenotypic Characterization of Chloracidobacterium Isolates Provides Evidence for Multiple Species. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:704168.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Chloracidobacterium" Bryant et al. 2007. Publication: Bryant DA, Costas AM, Maresca JA, Chew AG, Klatt CG, Bateson MM, Tallon LJ, Hostetler J, Nelson WC, Heidelberg JF, et al. Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum: an aerobic phototrophic Acidobacterium. Science 2007; 317:523-526.
  • 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Chloracidobacteria".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; JCM: 1.
  • 🧍 Regarded as not validly published. Type species not validly published. — Oren A. Personal communication, 2021-08-31.

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
    "Chloracidobacterium aggregatum" Saini et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Chloracidobacterium thermophilum" Tank and Bryant 2015	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Chloracidobacterium validum" Saini et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Acidobacteriaceae Thrash and Coates 2012

Assigned by: Tank M, Bryant DA. Chloracidobacterium thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov.: an anoxygenic microaerophilic chlorophotoheterotrophic acidobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1426-1430.

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