Name: Micromonas Murdoch and Shah 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. adj. mikros -ê -on, small, little; L. fem. n. monas, a monad, unit; N.L. fem. n. Micromonas, tiny cell

Type species: Micromonas micros (Prévot 1933) Murdoch and Shah 2000

Effective publication: Murdoch DA, Shah HN. Reclassification of Peptostreptococcus magnus (Prevot 1933) Holdeman and Moore 1972 as Finegoldia magna comb. nov. and Peptostreptococcus micros (Prevot 1933) Smith 1957 as Micromonas micros comb. nov. Anaerobe 1999; 5:555-559.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 75. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1415-1417.

Nomenclatural status: validly published, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Parvimonas Tindall and Euzéby 2006

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Parvimonas Tindall and Euzéby 2006	homotypic synonym, validly published

• Notes:
  • Later homonym of the algal genus name, Micromonas I. Manton and M. Parke 1960; the name is illegitimate because of this precedence.
  • According to Rule 65 (2),the genus name Micromonas must be in the feminine gender, not in the masculine gender as cited in the paper by Murdoch and Shah 2000. {2} The name Micromonas Murdoch and Shah 2000 is illegitimate because of precedence of a microalga Micromonas I. Manton and M. Parke (Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Chlorophyta; Prasinophyceae; Mamiellales; Mamiellaceae; Micromonas; Micromonas pusilla). See: Principle 2 and Rule 51b(4). Publication: De Vos P, Trüper HG, Tindall BJ. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Xth International (IUMS) Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology. Minutes of the meetings, 28, 29 and 31 July and 1 August 2002, Paris, France. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2005; 55:525-532.
  • The name Micromonas Murdoch and Shah 2000 is illegitimate because of precedence of the algal genus name, Micromonas I. Manton and M. Parke 1960 [Rule 51b(4)]. Consequently, a new genus designation Parvimonas has been validly published by Tindall and Euzéby 2006.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Micromonas micros (Prévot 1933) Murdoch and Shah 2000	validly published, illegitimate name	synonym

Parent taxon: Peptoniphilaceae Johnson et al. 2014

Assigned by: Johnson CN, Whitehead TR, Cotta MA, Rhoades RE, Lawson PA. Peptoniphilus stercorisuis sp. nov., isolated from a swine manure storage tank and description of Peptoniphilaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3538-3545.

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