Genus "Candidatus Sphaeronema"

Name: "Candidatus Sphaeronema" Levantesi et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Sphae.ro.ne’ma. Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, a sphere; Gr. neut. n. nêma, a thread; N.L. neut. n. Sphaeronema, a thread-forming sphere

Gender: neuter (stem: Sphaeronemat-)

Type species: "Candidatus Sphaeronema italicum" Levantesi et al. 2004

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Levantesi C, Beimfohr C, Geurkink B, Rossetti S, Thelen K, Krooneman J, Snaidr J, van der Waarde J, Tandoi V. Filamentous Alphaproteobacteria associated with bulking in industrial wastewater treatment plants. Syst Appl Microbiol 2004; 27:716-727.

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

Notes:
- This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Chaeronema".

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

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Candidatus Sphaeronema italicum" Levantesi et al. 2004	not validly published

Parent taxon: [Alphaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/sphaeronemaLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 2861

This LPSN page was printed on 2023-03-21 18:21:40