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: feminine (stem: Nitrososphaer-)

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

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original 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

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Nitrososphaera Stieglmeier et al. 2014

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: 3

Parent taxon: Nitrososphaeraceae Stieglmeier et al. 2014

Assigned by: 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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