Name: "Candidatus Nitrosotalea" Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ni.tro.so.ta’le.a. L. masc. adj. nitrosus, full of natron, here intended to mean nitrous; N.L. pref. nitroso-, pertaining to nitrite (in compound words); L. fem. n. talea, a slender staff, rod, stick; N.L. fem. n. Nitrosotalea, a nitrous slender rod

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Nitrosotale-), ni-tro-so-TA-le-a

Type species: "Candidatus Nitrosotalea devaniterrae" corrig. Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2011

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Lehtovirta-Morley LE, Stoecker K, Vilcinskas A, Prosser JI, Nicol GW. Cultivation of an obligate acidophilic ammonia oxidizer from a nitrifying acid soil. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:15892-15897. 🇬🇧

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: Nitrosotalea Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2024

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

Parent taxon: Nitrosotaleaceae Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2024

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. — Lehtovirta-Morley LE, Ge C, Ross J, Yao H, Hazard C, Gubry-Rangin C, Prosser JI, Nicol GW. Nitrosotalea devaniterrae gen. nov., sp. nov. and Nitrosotalea sinensis sp. nov., two acidophilic ammonia oxidising archaea isolated from acidic soil, and proposal of the new order Nitrosotaleales ord. nov. within the class Nitrososphaeria of the phylum Nitrososphaerota. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6387. 🇫🇷

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