Name: "Rhodopilula" Frank 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Rho.do.pi’lu.la. Gr. neut. n. rhodon, a rose; L. fem. dim. n. pilula, a small ball; N.L. fem. dim. n. Rhodopilula, a red small ball

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Rhodopilul-), rho-do-PI-lu-la

Type species: "Rhodopilula apulia" Frank 2011

Original publication: Frank CS. Polyphasische Taxonomie, Kerngenom und Lebenszyklus von Rhodopirellula-Stämmen (Dissertation). Universität Bremen, Bremen, 2011. 🇩🇪

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

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: 1

Parent taxon: Planctomycetaceae Schlesner and Stackebrandt 1987

Assigned by: Frank CS. Polyphasic taxonomy of Rhodopirellula-related strains. In: Frank CS (eds), Polyphasische Taxonomie, Kerngenom und Lebenszyklus von Rhodopirellula-Stämmen, Ph.D. Thesis., University of Bremen, Bremen, 2011, p. 71-102. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 32589

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