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

Pro-valid 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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-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	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Planktophila lacus" Neuenschwander et al. 2018	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Planktophila limnetica" Jezbera et al. 2009	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Planktophila sulfonica" Neuenschwander et al. 2018	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Planktophila vernalis" Neuenschwander et al. 2018	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Planktophila versatilis" Neuenschwander et al. 2018	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: [Actinomycetales, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 21813