Name: "Candidatus Hesperobacter" Ji et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Hes.pe.ro.ba’cter. Gr. masc. n. Hesperos, the Evening Star; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Hesperobacter, a rod named in reference to both ’dark’ and ’light’ carbon fixation (chemolithoautotrophic and photoautotrophic) abilities

Gender: masculine (stem: Hesperobacter-)

Type species: "Candidatus Hesperobacter lustricola" Ji et al. 2021

Original 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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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 Hemerobacter 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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Hesperobacter lustricola" Ji et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Vulcanimicrobiaceae Yabe et al. 2024

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: 35542