Name: "Candidatus Pleuronema" corrig. Couradeau et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Pleu.ro.ne’ma. Gr. fem. n. pleura, side of the body, rib; Gr. neut. n. nêma, a thread; N.L. neut. n. Pleuronema, probably named because its affiliation with the order Pleurocapsales

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Pleuronemat-), ple͡u-ro-NE-ma

Type species: "Candidatus Pleuronema perforans" corrig. Couradeau et al. 2017

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Couradeau E, Roush D, Guida BS, Garcia-Pichel F. Diversity and mineral substrate preference in endolithic microbial communities from marine intertidal outcrops (Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico). Biogeosciences 2017; 14:311-324.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 3. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5186.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Pleurinema" Couradeau et al. 2017	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Couradeau et al. (2017) assigned this genus to the order Pleurocapsales Geitler 1925. Publication: Couradeau E, Roush D, Guida BS, Garcia-Pichel F. Diversity and mineral substrate preference in endolithic microbial communities from marine intertidal outcrops (Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico). Biogeosciences 2017; 14:311-324.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Pleurinema" Couradeau et al. 2017. Publication: Couradeau E, Roush D, Guida BS, Garcia-Pichel F. Diversity and mineral substrate preference in endolithic microbial communities from marine intertidal outcrops (Isla de Mona, Puerto Rico). Biogeosciences 2017; 14:311-324.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Plcuronema".

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Pleuronema perforans" corrig. Couradeau et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Pleuronema testarum" corrig. Couradeau et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: [Chroococcales, not assigned to family]

Assigned by: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.

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Record number: 28516