Name: "Candidatus Planktophila" Jezbera et al. 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Plank.to’phi.la. Gr. masc. adj. planktos, wandering; N.L. fem. adj. suff. -phila, loving; from Gr. fem. adj. philê, loving; N.L. fem. n. Planktophila, a plankton-loving organism

Gender: feminine (stem: Planktophil-)

Type species: "Candidatus Planktophila limnetica" Jezbera et al. 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Jezbera J, Sharma AK, Brandt U, Doolittle WF, Hahn MW. 'Candidatus Planktophila limnetica', an actinobacterium representing one of the most numerically important taxa in freshwater bacterioplankton. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2864-2869.

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)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Neuenschwander et al. (2018) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Nanopelagicales" Neuenschwander et al. 2018. Publication: Neuenschwander SM, Ghai R, Pernthaler J, Salcher MM. Microdiversification in genome-streamlined ubiquitous freshwater Actinobacteria. ISME J 2018; 12:185-198.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Planktopila".

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: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Planktophila dulcis" Neuenschwander et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Planktophila lacus" Neuenschwander et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Planktophila limnetica" Jezbera et al. 2009	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Planktophila sulfonica" Neuenschwander et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Planktophila vernalis" Neuenschwander et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Planktophila versatilis" Neuenschwander et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: [Actinomycetales, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 21813