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: neuter (stem: Pleuronemat-)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original 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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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.
  • 🙄 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	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Pleuronema testarum" corrig. Couradeau et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not 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