Genus "Candidatus Heliomonas"

Name: "Candidatus Heliomonas" Asao et al. 2012

Category, proposed as: genus, Candidatus

Etymology: He.li.o’mo.nas. Gr. masc. n. hêlios, the sun; L. fem. n. monas, unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Heliomonas, the solar unit

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Heliomonad-), he-li-O-mo-nas

Type species: "Candidatus Heliomonas lunata" Asao et al. 2012

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Asao M, Takaichi S, Madigan MT. Amino acid-assimilating phototrophic heliobacteria from soda lake environments: Heliorestis acidaminivorans sp. nov. and 'Candidatus Heliomonas lunata'. Extremophiles 2012; 16:585-595. 🇺🇸

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:
  • 🧕 Asao et al. (2012) assigned this genus to the phylum "Firmicutes" (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Asao M, Takaichi S, Madigan MT. Amino acid-assimilating phototrophic heliobacteria from soda lake environments: Heliorestis acidaminivorans sp. nov. and 'Candidatus Heliomonas lunata'. Extremophiles 2012; 16:585-595. 🇺🇸
  • 💥 This name is a homonym of Heliomonas N.N. (botanical) [from Catalogue of Life].

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
    "Candidatus Heliomonas lunata" Asao et al. 2012	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: [Bacillota, not assigned to family]

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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Record number: 21772