Name: "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus" Santoro et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ni.tro.so.pe.la’gi.cus. L. masc. adj. nitrosus, full of natron, here intended to mean nitrous; N.L. pref. nitroso-, pertaining to nitrite (in compound words); L. neut. n. pelagus, the sea; N.L. masc. n. Nitrosopelagicus, a marine nitrous organism

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Nitrosopelagic-), ni-tro-so-pe-LA-gi-kus

Type species: "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis" Santoro et al. 2015

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Santoro AE, Dupont CL, Richter RA, Craig MT, Carini P, McIlvin MR, Yang Y, Orsi WD, Moran DM, Saito MA. Genomic and proteomic characterization of "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis": an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from the open ocean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:1173-1178.

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Parte et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the phylum "Nitrososphaerota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.
  • 🧕 Qin et al. (2017) assigned this genus to the family Nitrosopumilaceae Qin et al. 2017. Publication: Qin W, Heal KR, Ramdasi R, Kobelt JN, Martens-Habbena W, Bertagnolli AD, Amin SA, Walker CB, Urakawa H, Konneke M, et al. Nitrosopumilus maritimus gen. nov., sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus cobalaminigenes sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus oxyclinae sp. nov., and Nitrosopumilus ureiphilus sp. nov., four marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea of the phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5067-5079.
  • 🧕 Santoro et al. (2015) assigned this genus to the phylum "Candidatus Thaumarchaeota" Brochier-Armanet et al. 2008. Publication: Santoro AE, Dupont CL, Richter RA, Craig MT, Carini P, McIlvin MR, Yang Y, Orsi WD, Moran DM, Saito MA. Genomic and proteomic characterization of "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus brevis": an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from the open ocean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:1173-1178.

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 Nitrosopelagicus brevis" Santoro et al. 2015	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: [Nitrosopumilales, not assigned to family]

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