Name: "Congregicoccus" Islam et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Con.gre.gi.coc’cus. L. masc. adj. congregus, united in flocks; N.L. masc. n. coccus, coccus; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain, seed; N.L. masc. n. Congregicoccus, a coccus that grows in flocks

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Congregicocc-), kon-gre-gi-KOK-kus

Type species: "Congregicoccus parvus" Islam et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Islam MS, Yamamoto K, Morita N, Kitagawa W, Yumoto I, Kato S, Nakai R, Igarashi K. Characterization of Congregicoccus parvus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel slow-growing ultramicrobacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobiota. PLoS One 2025; 20:e0326734.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NCIMB: 1; JCM: 1.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Congregicoccus parvus" Islam et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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Record number: 66309