Name: "Candidatus Scalindua" Schmid et al. 2003

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Sca.lin’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: feminine (stem: Scalindu-)

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Preferred name: "Candidatus Scalindua" Jetten et al. 2003

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Scalindua" Jetten et al. 2003	homotypic synonym, not 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 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.

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