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Genus "Candidatus Sphaeronema"
Name: "Candidatus Sphaeronema" Levantesi et al. 2004
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, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Sphaeronemat-), spha͡e-ro-NE-ma
Type species: "Candidatus Sphaeronema italicum" Levantesi et al. 2004
Effective 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
Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: pro-correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Kragelund et al. (2006) assigned this genus to the class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Kragelund C, Kong Y, van der Waarde J, Thelen K, Eikelboom D, Tandoi V, Thomsen TR, Nielsen PH. Ecophysiology of different filamentous Alphaproteobacteria in industrial wastewater treatment plants. Microbiology (Reading) 2006; 152:3003-3012.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Chaeronema"; "Sphacronema"; "Sphaerenema".
- 😡 This taxon name is a homonym of Sphaeronema Umezaki 1961.
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🧕 Kragelund et al. (2006) assigned this genus to the class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Kragelund C, Kong Y, van der Waarde J, Thelen K, Eikelboom D, Tandoi V, Thomsen TR, Nielsen PH. Ecophysiology of different filamentous Alphaproteobacteria in industrial wastewater treatment plants. Microbiology (Reading) 2006; 152:3003-3012.
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Sphaeronema italicum" Levantesi et al. 2004 not validly published orphaned species
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Record number: 2861
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