Genus "Candidatus Photodesmus"
Name: "Candidatus Photodesmus" Hendry and Dunlap 2011
Etymology: Pho.to.des’mus. Gr. neut. n. phôs (gen. phôtos), light; Gr. masc. n. desmos, band, cable; N.L. masc. n. Photodesmus, a light (emitting) cable
Gender: masculine (stem: Photodesm-)
Type species: "Candidatus Photodesmus anomalopis" corrig. Hendry and Dunlap 2011
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Original publication:
Hendry TA, Dunlap PV. The uncultured luminous symbiont of Anomalops katoptron (Beryciformes: Anomalopidae) represents a new bacterial genus. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2011; 61:834-843. 
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: preferred name (not correct name)
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Photodesmus anomalopis" corrig. Hendry and Dunlap 2011 not validly published preferred name (not correct name) "Candidatus Photodesmus blepharonis" corrig. Hendry and Dunlap 2014 not validly published preferred name (not correct name) "Candidatus Photodesmus blepharus" Hendry and Dunlap 2014 inaccurate spelling misspelling (and no standing) "Candidatus Photodesmus katoptron" Hendry and Dunlap 2011 inaccurate spelling misspelling (and no standing)
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Parent taxon: Vibrionaceae Véron 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Hendry TA, Dunlap PV. The uncultured luminous symbiont of Anomalops katoptron (Beryciformes: Anomalopidae) represents a new bacterial genus. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2011; 61:834-843.
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Record number: 521773
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