Name: "Candidatus Pelagadaptatus" Ho et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Pe.lag.ad.ap.ta’tus. Gr. neut. n. pelagos, the sea; L. masc. perf. part. adaptatus, adapted to; N.L. masc. n. Pelagadaptatus, a microbe of the sea

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Pelagadaptat-), pe-lag-ad-ap-TA-tus

Type species: "Candidatus Pelagadaptatus aseana" Ho et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Ho JY, Koh XQ, Kang DY, Low A, Hu D, Haryono MAS, Williams RBH, Case RJ, Boucher YF. Discovery of a phylogenetically novel tropical marine Gammaproteobacteria elucidated from assembled genomes and the proposed transfer of the genus Umboniibacter from the family Cellvibrionaceae to Umboniibacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2025; 16:1437936. 🇸🇬

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pelagadaptus".
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. The expression "monophyletic clade" is a pleonasm. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
  • 🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).

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 Pelagadaptatus aseana" Ho et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Cellvibrionaceae Spring et al. 2015

Assigned by: Ho JY, Koh XQ, Kang DY, Low A, Hu D, Haryono MAS, Williams RBH, Case RJ, Boucher YF. Discovery of a phylogenetically novel tropical marine Gammaproteobacteria elucidated from assembled genomes and the proposed transfer of the genus Umboniibacter from the family Cellvibrionaceae to Umboniibacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2025; 16:1437936. 🇸🇬

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Record number: 64921