Name: "Regnicoccus" Walter et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Regn.i.co.ccus. L. gen. neut. n. regni, powerful, royal power, control; N.L. masc. n. Regnicoccus, referring to an abundant organism

Gender: masculine (stem: Regnicocc-)

Type species: "Regnicoccus antarcticus" Walter et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Walter JM, Coutinho FH, Dutilh BE, Swings J, Thompson FL, Thompson CC. Ecogenomics and Taxonomy of Cyanobacteria Phylum. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2132.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧍 The distinct name Magnicoccus 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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Regnicoccus antarcticus" Walter et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Regnicoccus frigidus" Panwar et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Synechococcaceae Komárek and Anagnostidis 1995

Assigned by: Walter JM, Coutinho FH, Dutilh BE, Swings J, Thompson FL, Thompson CC. Ecogenomics and Taxonomy of Cyanobacteria Phylum. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:2132.

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Record number: 20328