Name: "Candidatus Macondimonas" Karthikeyan et al. 2019
Category, proposed as: genus, Candidatus
Etymology:Ma.con.di’mo.nas.L. fem. n.monas, a unit, a monad; N.L. fem. n.Macondimonas, a monad from Macondo Prospect, the site of DWH oil spill. Additionally, Macondo is a fictional town in A Hundred Years of Solitude by G. G. Márquez. In the book, the town of Macondo has a rapid population growth, a period of economic prosperity, and then a rapid population fall, which is reminiscent of the ecologic pattern observed for this group upon crude-oil exposure
Effective publication:
Karthikeyan S, Rodriguez-R LM, Heritier-Robbins P, Kim M, Overholt WA, Gaby JC, Hatt JK, Spain JC, Rossello-Mora R, Huettel M, et al. "Candidatus Macondimonas diazotrophica", a novel gammaproteobacterial genus dominating crude-oil-contaminated coastal sediments. ISME J 2019; 13:2129-2134. 🇺🇸
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.
Nomenclatural status:
not validly published
Nomenclatural pro-status:
pro-validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
pro-correct name
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