Name: "Candidatus Pelagibacter" Rappé et al. 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Pe.la.gi.bac.ter. N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Pelagibacter

Gender: masculine (stem: Pelagibacter-)

Type species: "Candidatus Pelagibacter communis" corrig. Rappé et al. 2002

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Rappe MS, Connon SA, Vergin KL, Giovannoni SJ. Cultivation of the ubiquitous SAR11 marine bacterioplankton clade. Nature 2002; 418:630-633.

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

Risk group: 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: 3

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Pelagibacteraceae" Thrash et al. 2011

Assigned by: Thrash JC, Boyd A, Huggett MJ, Grote J, Carini P, Yoder RJ, Robbertse B, Spatafora JW, Rappe MS, Giovannoni SJ. Phylogenomic evidence for a common ancestor of mitochondria and the SAR11 clade. Sci Rep 2011; 1:13.

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Record number: 521772
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