Name: "Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus" Jung et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ni.tro.so.cos’mi.cus. L. masc. adj. nitrosus, full of natron, here intended to mean nitrous; N.L. pref. nitroso-, pertaining to nitrite (in compound words); Gr. masc. adj. kosmikos, belonging to the world; N.L. masc. n. Nitrosocosmicus, a nitrous organism belonging to the world

Gender: masculine (stem: Nitrosocosmic-)

Type species: "Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus oleiphilus" corrig. Jung et al. 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Jung MY, Kim JG, Sinninghe Damste JS, Rijpstra WI, Madsen EL, Kim SJ, Hong H, Si OJ, Kerou M, Schleper C, et al. A hydrophobic ammonia-oxidizing archaeon of the Nitrosocosmicus clade isolated from coal tar-contaminated sediment. Environ Microbiol Rep 2016; 8:983-992.

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: synonym (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus" Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2016

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus" Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2016	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrososocmicus".

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus oleiphilus" corrig. Jung et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus oleophilus" Jung et al. 2016	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)

Parent taxon: [Nitrososphaerales, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 42959