Name: "Candidatus Proelusimicrobium" Mies et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Pro.e.lu.si.mi.cro’bi.um. Gr. prep. pro, (temporally) prior, before; N.L. neut. n. Elusimicrobium, a bacterial genus; N.L. neut. n. Proelusimicrobium, the ancestral Elusimicrobium

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Proelusimicrobi-), pro-e-lu-si-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: "Candidatus Proelusimicrobium excrementi" Mies et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Mies US, Zheng H, Platt K, Radek R, Paczia N, Treitli SC, Brune A. Comparative genomics of Elusimicrobiaceae (phylum Elusimicrobiota) and description of the isolates Elusimicrobium simillimum sp. nov., Elusimicrobium posterum sp. nov., and Parelusimicrobium proximum gen. nov. sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126606.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧍 The distinct name Parelusimicrobium from the same publication has a similar spelling. — 🧍 The distinct name Pseudelusimicrobium from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Proelusimicrobium bovinum" Mies et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Proelusimicrobium excrementi" Mies et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Proelusimicrobium tauri" Mies et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Proelusimicrobium volucris" Mies et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Elusimicrobiaceae Geissinger et al. 2010

Assigned by: Mies US, Zheng H, Platt K, Radek R, Paczia N, Treitli SC, Brune A. Comparative genomics of Elusimicrobiaceae (phylum Elusimicrobiota) and description of the isolates Elusimicrobium simillimum sp. nov., Elusimicrobium posterum sp. nov., and Parelusimicrobium proximum gen. nov. sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126606.

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Record number: 65012