Name: "Candidatus Magnetaquiglobus" Shimoshige et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ma.gnet.a.qui’glo.bus. L. gen. masc. n. magnetis, a magnet; Gr. masc. n. Magnês (gen. Magnêtos), pertaining to a magnet; L. fem. n. aqua, water; L. masc. n. globus, a sphere; N.L. masc. n. Magnetaquiglobus, the magnetic sphere from water, referring to its sphere morphology and magnetotactic behaviour

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Magnetaquiglob-), ma-n͡gnet-a-KWI-glo-bus

Type species: "Candidatus Magnetaquiglobus chichijimensis" Shimoshige et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Shimoshige H, Yanagisawa K, Miyazaki M, Takaki Y, Shimamura S, Nomaki H, Fukui M, Shirakawa H, Kobayashi H, Taoka A, et al. Isolation and cultivation of a novel freshwater magnetotactic coccus FCR-1 containing unchained magnetosomes. Commun Biol 2025; 8:505.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Magnetaquiglobus chichijimensis" Shimoshige et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Magnetaquicoccaceae" Koziaeva et al. 2019

Assigned by: Shimoshige H, Yanagisawa K, Miyazaki M, Takaki Y, Shimamura S, Nomaki H, Fukui M, Shirakawa H, Kobayashi H, Taoka A, et al. Isolation and cultivation of a novel freshwater magnetotactic coccus FCR-1 containing unchained magnetosomes. Commun Biol 2025; 8:505.

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Record number: 64671