Name: "Lacunisphaera" Rast et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: La.cu.ni.sphae.ra. L. fem. n. lacuna, a little lake, referring to the origin of the organism; Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, a ball, globe, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Lacunisphaera, a spherical microorganism from a lake

Gender: feminine (stem: Lacunisphaer-)

Type species: "Lacunisphaera limnophila" Rast et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Rast P, Glockner I, Boedeker C, Jeske O, Wiegand S, Reinhardt R, Schumann P, Rohde M, Spring S, Glockner FO, et al. Three Novel Species with Peptidoglycan Cell Walls form the New Genus Lacunisphaera gen. nov. in the Family Opitutaceae of the Verrucomicrobial Subdivision 4. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:202.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: LMG: 3; DSM: 3.

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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Lacunisphaera anatis" Rast et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Lacunisphaera limnophila" Rast et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Lacunisphaera parvula" Rast et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007

Assigned by: Rast P, Glockner I, Boedeker C, Jeske O, Wiegand S, Reinhardt R, Schumann P, Rohde M, Spring S, Glockner FO, et al. Three Novel Species with Peptidoglycan Cell Walls form the New Genus Lacunisphaera gen. nov. in the Family Opitutaceae of the Verrucomicrobial Subdivision 4. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:202.

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Record number: 269