Name: "Candidatus Chloroploca" Gorlenko et al. 2014

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Chlo.ro’plo.ca. Gr. masc. adj. chlôros, green; Gr. fem. n. plokê, a braid, a twist; N.L. fem. n. Chloroploca, green braid

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Chloroploc-), k^hlo-RO-plo-ka

Type species: "Candidatus Chloroploca asiatica" Gorlenko et al. 2014

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gorlenko VM, Bryantseva IA, Kalashnikov AM, Gaisin VA, et al. Candidatus ‘Chloroploca asiatica' gen. nov., sp. nov., a new mesophilic filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium. Microbiology 2014; 83:838-848.

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Hloroploca".

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 Chloroploca asiatica" Gorlenko et al. 2014	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Chloroploca mongolica" Bryantseva et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Chloroploca septentrionalis" Gorlenko et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Chloroflexales, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 19153