Name: "Candidatus Electronema" Trojan et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: E.lec.tro.ne’ma. Gr. neut. n. êlektron, amber; Gr. neut. n. nêma, thread; N.L. neut. n. Electronema, electric thread

Gender: neuter (stem: Electronemat-)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Trojan D, Schreiber L, Bjerg JT, Boggild A, Yang T, Kjeldsen KU, Schramm A. A taxonomic framework for cable bacteria and proposal of the candidate genera Electrothrix and Electronema. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:297-306.

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:
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Electronema aureum" Thorup et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Electronema halotolerans" Sereika et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Electronema nielsenii" Trojan et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Electronema palustre" corrig. Trojan et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Electronema palustris" Trojan et al. 2016	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)

Parent taxon: Desulfobulbaceae Kuever et al. 2006

Assigned by: Trojan D, Schreiber L, Bjerg JT, Boggild A, Yang T, Kjeldsen KU, Schramm A. A taxonomic framework for cable bacteria and proposal of the candidate genera Electrothrix and Electronema. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:297-306.

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