Name: "Candidatus Nanopusillus" Wurch et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Na.no.pu.sil’lus. Gr. masc. n. nânos, a dwarf; L. masc. adj. pusillus, very small; N.L. masc. n. Nanopusillus, a very small member of the Nanoarchaeota

Gender: masculine (stem: Nanopusill-)

Type species: "Candidatus Nanopusillus acidilobi" Wurch et al. 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Wurch L, Giannone RJ, Belisle BS, Swift C, Utturkar S, Hettich RL, Reysenbach AL, Podar M. Genomics-informed isolation and characterization of a symbiotic Nanoarchaeota system from a terrestrial geothermal environment. Nat Commun 2016; 7:12115.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Nanobsidianus" Castelle et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Nanopusillaceae" Huber et al. 2016. Publication: Huber H, Auerbach A, Podar M. “ Nanoarchaeales ”. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Wiley, Unknown City, 2016, p. 1-2.
  • 🧕 Huber et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the family "Candidatus Nanopusillaceae" Huber et al. 2016. Publication: Huber H, Auerbach A, Podar M. “ Nanoarchaeales ”. In: Anonymous NN (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Wiley, Unknown City, 2016, p. 1-2.
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Naniopusillus"; "Nanopusilis".

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: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Nanopusillus acidilobi" Wurch et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Nanopusillus massiliensis" Hassani et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Nanopusillus phoceensis" Hassani et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Nanopusillus phoceensis" Hassani et al. 2023	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Nanopusillus stetteri" (Castelle et al. 2015) Rinke et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not 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.

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