Name: "Candidatus Nitrososphaera" Tourna et al. 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ni.tro.so.sphae’ra. L. masc. adj. nitrosus, full of natron, here intended to mean nitrite producer; Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, spherically shaped; N.L. fem. n. Nitrososphaera, type genus of the order

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Nitrososphaer-), ni-tro-so-SP^HA͡E-ra

Type species: "Candidatus Nitrososphaera viennensis" Tourna et al. 2011

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Tourna M, Stieglmeier M, Spang A, Konneke M, Schintlmeister A, Urich T, Engel M, Schloter M, Wagner M, Richter A, et al. Nitrososphaera viennensis, an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:8420-8425.

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: synonym

Correct name: Nitrososphaera Stieglmeier et al. 2014

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nitrososphaera Stieglmeier et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Nitrososphaeraceae" Tourna et al. 2011. Publication: Tourna M, Stieglmeier M, Spang A, Konneke M, Schintlmeister A, Urich T, Engel M, Schloter M, Wagner M, Richter A, et al. Nitrososphaera viennensis, an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:8420-8425.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Nitrososphaerales" Tourna et al. 2011. Publication: Tourna M, Stieglmeier M, Spang A, Konneke M, Schintlmeister A, Urich T, Engel M, Schloter M, Wagner M, Richter A, et al. Nitrososphaera viennensis, an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:8420-8425.
  • 🧕 Tourna et al. (2011) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Nitrososphaerales" Tourna et al. 2011. Publication: Tourna M, Stieglmeier M, Spang A, Konneke M, Schintlmeister A, Urich T, Engel M, Schloter M, Wagner M, Richter A, et al. Nitrososphaera viennensis, an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:8420-8425.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Nitrosophaera"; "Nitrosopshaera"; "Nitrosospaera"; "Nitrososphaea"; "Nitrososphaeraea"; "Nitrosospheara"; "Nitrosphaera"; "Nitrsosphaera".
  • ❗ "Candidatus Nitrososphaera" is the pro-correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published and legitimate or pro-validly published and pro-legitimate and not rejected and has priority or pro-priority).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 1; DSM: 1.

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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Nitrososphaera evergladensis" Zhalnina et al. 2014	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Nitrososphaera gargensis" Hatzenpichler et al. 2008	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Nitrososphaera maunauluensis" Roy et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Nitrososphaera viennensis" Tourna et al. 2011	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Nitrososphaeraceae Stieglmeier et al. 2014

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Stieglmeier M, Klingl A, Alves RJ, Rittmann SK, Melcher M, Leisch N, Schleper C. Nitrososphaera viennensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic and mesophilic, ammonia-oxidizing archaeon from soil and a member of the archaeal phylum Thaumarchaeota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2738-2752.

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