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
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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"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) |
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