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: feminine (stem: Chloroploc-)

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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original 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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Chloroploca mongolica" Bryantseva et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Chloroploca septentrionalis" Gorlenko et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Chloroflexales, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 19153