Name: "Candidatus Scalindua" Schmid et al. 2003

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Scal.in’du.a. L. fem. n. scala, ladder; L. v. induo, dressed out or fitted with; N.L. fem. n. Scalindua, dressed out with ladders, referring to the presence of unique ladderane lipids

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Scalindu-), skal-IN-du-a

Type species: "Candidatus Scalindua brodae" Schmid et al. 2003

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Schmid M, Walsh K, Webb R, Rijpstra WI, van de Pas-Schoonen K, Verbruggen MJ, Hill T, Moffett B, Fuerst J, Schouten S, et al. Candidatus "Scalindua brodae", sp. nov., Candidatus "Scalindua wagneri", sp. nov., two new species of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 2003; 26:529-538.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Scalindua" Jetten et al. 2003	homotypic synonym, not pro-validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Fuchsman et al. (2012) assigned this genus to the phylum "Planctomycetes" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Fuchsman CA, Staley JT, Oakley BB, Kirkpatrick JB, Murray JW. Free-living and aggregate-associated Planctomycetes in the Black Sea. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2012; 80:402-416.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Scalidua"; "Scalindula"; "Scalinuda".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🧍 See also Woebken et al. (2008). Publication: Woebken D, Lam P, Kuypers MM, Naqvi SW, Kartal B, Strous M, Jetten MS, Fuchs BM, Amann R. A microdiversity study of anammox bacteria reveals a novel Candidatus Scalindua phylotype in marine oxygen minimum zones. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:3106-3119.

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: 16

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Scalindua arabica" Woebken et al. 2008	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua brodae" Schmid et al. 2003	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua chemeplantae" Litti et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Scalindua erythraensis" Ali et al. 2020	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua flavia" Ahmed et al. 2017	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Scalindua flavimaris" corrig. Ahmed et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua japonica" Oshiki et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua marina" Fuerst 2013	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Scalindua pacifica" Dang et al. 2013	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua profunda" van de Vossenberg et al. 2013	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua richardsii" Fuchsman et al. 2012	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua rubra" Speth et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua sediminis" Zhao et al. 2020	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua sorokinii" Kuypers et al. 2003	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua wagneri" Schmid et al. 2003	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Scalindua zhenghei" Hong et al. 2011	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Scalinduaceae" Lodha et al. 2021

Assigned by: Lodha T, Narvekar S, Karodi P. Classification of uncultivated anammox bacteria and Candidatus Uabimicrobium into new classes and provisional nomenclature as Candidatus Brocadiia classis nov. and Candidatus Uabimicrobiia classis nov. of the phylum Planctomycetes and novel family Candidatus Scalinduaceae fam. nov to accommodate the genus Candidatus Scalindua. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126272.

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