Name: "Candidatus Vermiplasma" Murakami et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ver.mi.plas’ma. L. masc. n. vermis, worm; Gr. neut. n. plasma, something formed or moulded; N.L. neut. n. Vermiplasma, something formed from a worm

Gender: neuter (stem: Vermiplasmat-)

Type species: "Candidatus Vermiplasma glaciale" corrig. Murakami et al. 2015

Original publication: Murakami T, Segawa T, Bodington D, Dial R, Takeuchi N, Kohshima S, Hongoh Y. Census of bacterial microbiota associated with the glacier ice worm Mesenchytraeus solifugus. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2015; 91:0.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: May M, Brown DR. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Mollicutes. Minutes of the closed meeting, 3rd July 2016, Brisbane, Australia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2482-2484.

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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Vermiplasma glaciale" corrig. Murakami et al. 2015	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Vermiplasma glacialis" Murakami et al. 2015	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)

Parent taxon: Mycoplasmataceae Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Murakami T, Segawa T, Bodington D, Dial R, Takeuchi N, Kohshima S, Hongoh Y. Census of bacterial microbiota associated with the glacier ice worm Mesenchytraeus solifugus. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2015; 91:0.

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