Name: "Candidatus Nanoclepta" St John et al. 2019

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Na.no.clep’ta. Gr. masc. n. nânos, dwarf; Gr. masc. n. kleptês, thief; N.L. masc. n. Nanoclepta, a small thief, a small organism that steals from its host [probably better: Nanocleptes]

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Nanoclept-), na-no-KLEP-ta

Type species: "Candidatus Nanoclepta minutus" St John et al. 2019

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: St John E, Liu Y, Podar M, Stott MB, Meneghin J, Chen Z, Lagutin K, Mitchell K, Reysenbach AL. A new symbiotic nanoarchaeote (Candidatus Nanoclepta minutus) and its host (Zestosphaera tikiterensis gen. nov., sp. nov.) from a New Zealand hot spring. Syst Appl Microbiol 2019; 42:94-106.

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

• Notes:
  • 🧕 St John et al. (2019) assigned this genus to the family Desulfurococcaceae Zillig and Stetter 1983. Publication: St John E, Liu Y, Podar M, Stott MB, Meneghin J, Chen Z, Lagutin K, Mitchell K, Reysenbach AL. A new symbiotic nanoarchaeote (Candidatus Nanoclepta minutus) and its host (Zestosphaera tikiterensis gen. nov., sp. nov.) from a New Zealand hot spring. Syst Appl Microbiol 2019; 42:94-106.
  • 🧍 See also Kato et al. (2022). Publication: Kato S, Ogasawara A, Itoh T, Sakai HD, Shimizu M, Yuki M, Kaneko M, Takashina T, Ohkuma M. Nanobdella aerobiophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic, obligate ectosymbiotic archaeon, and proposal of Nanobdellaceae fam. nov., Nanobdellales ord. nov. and Nanobdellia class. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5489.

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 Nanoclepta minutus" St John et al. 2019	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Nanobdellaceae Kato et al. 2022

Assigned by: Kato S, Ogasawara A, Itoh T, Sakai HD, Shimizu M, Yuki M, Kaneko M, Takashina T, Ohkuma M. Nanobdella aerobiophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermoacidophilic, obligate ectosymbiotic archaeon, and proposal of Nanobdellaceae fam. nov., Nanobdellales ord. nov. and Nanobdellia class. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5489.

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/nanocleptaCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 11525