Name: "Marinosulfonomonas" Holmes et al. 1997

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ma.ri.no.sul.fo.no’mo.nas. L. abl. adj. marino, of the sea; from L. masc. adj. marinus, marine; N.L. n. sulfono, from the sulfonate group; L. fem. n. monas, a unit or monad; N.L. fem. n. Marinosulfonomonas, sulfonate using monad from the sea

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Marinosulfonomonad-), ma-ri-no-sul-fo-NO-mo-nas

Type species: "Marinosulfonomonas methylotropha" Holmes et al. 1997

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Holmes AJ, Kelly DP, Baker SC, Thompson AS, De Marco P, Kenna EM, Murrell JC. Methylosulfonomonas methylovora gen. nov., sp. nov., and Marinosulfonomonas methylotropha gen. nov., sp. nov.: novel methylotrophs able to grow on methanesulfonic acid. Arch Microbiol 1997; 167:46-53.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nosulfonomonas".
  • 🧍 The distinct name Methylosulfonomonas 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
    "Marinosulfonomonas methylotropha" Holmes et al. 1997	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Alphaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 521839