Name: "Candidatus Kouleothrix" Klappenbach and Pierson 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. thrix, hair; N.L. fem. n. Kouleothrix

Gender: feminine (stem: Kouleotrich-)

Type species: "Candidatus Kouleothrix aurantiaca" Klappenbach and Pierson 2004

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Klappenbach JA, Pierson BK. Phylogenetic and physiological characterization of a filamentous anoxygenic photoautotrophic bacterium ' Candidatus Chlorothrix halophila' gen. nov., sp. nov., recovered from hypersaline microbial mats. Arch Microbiol 2004; 181:17-25.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Klappenbach and Pierson (2004) assigned this genus to the phylum "Chloroflexi" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Klappenbach JA, Pierson BK. Phylogenetic and physiological characterization of a filamentous anoxygenic photoautotrophic bacterium ' Candidatus Chlorothrix halophila' gen. nov., sp. nov., recovered from hypersaline microbial mats. Arch Microbiol 2004; 181:17-25.
  • 🧕 Parte et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the phylum "Chloroflexota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Kouletothrix".
  • 🧍 While the authors did not explicitly propose this taxon name, they did not provide a proper citation of the authority of the name either.

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Kouleothrix aurantiaca" Klappenbach and Pierson 2004	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Kouleothrix ribensis" Petriglieri et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Roseiflexaceae Gupta et al. 2013

Assigned by: Petriglieri F, Kondrotaite Z, Singleton C, Nierychlo M, Dueholm MKD, Nielsen PH. A comprehensive overview of the Chloroflexota community in wastewater treatment plants worldwide. mSystems 2023; 8:e0066723.

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Record number: 20361