Name: "Candidatus Entotheonella" Schmidt et al. 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: En.to.the.o.nel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Entotheonella, a Candidatus genus name

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Entotheonell-), en-to-t^he-o-NEL-la

Type species: "Candidatus Entotheonella palauensis" Schmidt et al. 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Schmidt EW, Obraztsova AY, Davidson SK, Faulkner DJ, Haygood MG. Identification of the antifungal peptide-containing symbiont of the marine sponge Theonella swinhoei as a novel δ-proteobacterium, "Candidatus Entotheonella palauensis". Marine Biology 2000; 136:969-977. 🇺🇸

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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Entotheonellaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Entotheonellales" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Entotheonellaeota" Goh et al. 2019. Publication: Goh KM, Shahar S, Chan KG, Chong CS, Amran SI, Sani MH, Zakaria II, Kahar UM. Current Status and Potential Applications of Underexplored Prokaryotes. Microorganisms 2019; 7:0. 🇲🇾
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Entotheonellota" Johnson and Hug 2019. Publication: Johnson LA, Hug LA. Distribution of reactive oxygen species defense mechanisms across domain bacteria. Free Radic Biol Med 2019; 140:93-102. 🇨🇦
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Candidatus Entotheonellota" corrig. Goh et al. 2019. Publication: Goh KM, Shahar S, Chan KG, Chong CS, Amran SI, Sani MH, Zakaria II, Kahar UM. Current Status and Potential Applications of Underexplored Prokaryotes. Microorganisms 2019; 7:0. 🇲🇾
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Entotheonellales" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 Schmidt et al. (2000) assigned this genus to the class "Deltaproteobacteria". Publication: Schmidt EW, Obraztsova AY, Davidson SK, Faulkner DJ, Haygood MG. Identification of the antifungal peptide-containing symbiont of the marine sponge Theonella swinhoei as a novel δ-proteobacterium, "Candidatus Entotheonella palauensis". Marine Biology 2000; 136:969-977. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Schmidt et al. (2000) assigned this genus to the order "Entotheonellales". Publication: Schmidt EW, Obraztsova AY, Davidson SK, Faulkner DJ, Haygood MG. Identification of the antifungal peptide-containing symbiont of the marine sponge Theonella swinhoei as a novel δ-proteobacterium, "Candidatus Entotheonella palauensis". Marine Biology 2000; 136:969-977. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Wilson et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the phylum "Candidatus Tectimicrobiota" corrig. Wilson et al. 2014. Publication: Wilson MC, Mori T, Ruckert C, Uria AR, Helf MJ, Takada K, Gernert C, Steffens UA, Heycke N, Schmitt S, et al. An environmental bacterial taxon with a large and distinct metabolic repertoire. Nature 2014; 506:58-62. 🇨🇭
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Entothenonella".

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 Entotheonella factor" Wilson et al. 2014	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Entotheonella gemina" Ueoka et al. 2015	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Entotheonella halido" Kim et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Entotheonella palauensis" Schmidt et al. 2000	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Entotheonella serta" Ueoka et al. 2015	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Entotheonellaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

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