Genus "Candidatus Elarobacter"

Name: "Candidatus Elarobacter" Ji et al. 2021

Category, proposed as: genus, Candidatus

Etymology: E.la.ro.bac’ter. Gr. fem. n. Elara, maiden in Greek mythology who was hidden beneath the earth, where she gave birth to Tityus; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Elarobacter, a bacterium recovered from soil

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Elarobacter-), e-la-ro-BAK-ter

Type species: "Candidatus Elarobacter winogradskyi" Ji et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Ji M, Williams TJ, Montgomery K, Wong HL, Zaugg J, Berengut JF, Bissett A, Chuvochina M, Hugenholtz P, Ferrari BC. Candidatus Eremiobacterota, a metabolically and phylogenetically diverse terrestrial phylum with acid-tolerant adaptations. ISME J 2021; 15:2692-2707. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Ji et al. (2021) assigned this genus to the family "Candidatus Baltobacteraceae" Ward et al. 2019. Publication: Ji M, Williams TJ, Montgomery K, Wong HL, Zaugg J, Berengut JF, Bissett A, Chuvochina M, Hugenholtz P, Ferrari BC. Candidatus Eremiobacterota, a metabolically and phylogenetically diverse terrestrial phylum with acid-tolerant adaptations. ISME J 2021; 15:2692-2707. 🇦🇺
  • 🧍 The distinct name Erobacter from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Elarobacter beijerinckii" Ji et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Elarobacter pasteuri" Ji et al. 2021	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Elarobacter pasteurii" corrig. Ji et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Elarobacter vanleeuwenhoeki" Ji et al. 2021	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Elarobacter vanleeuwenhoekii" corrig. Ji et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Elarobacter winogradskyi" Ji et al. 2021	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Vulcanimicrobiaceae Yabe et al. 2024

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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