Name: "Candidatus Vesicomyidisocius" corrig. Kuwahara et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ve.si.co.my.i.di.so’ci.us. N.L. fem. pl. n. Vesicomyidae, a family of clams; L. masc. adj. socius, companion; N.L. masc. n. Vesicomyidisocius, a companion of vesicomyid clams

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Vesicomyidisoci-), we-si-ko-my-i-di-SO-ki-us

Type species: "Candidatus Vesicomyidisocius calyptogenae" corrig. Kuwahara et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kuwahara H, Yoshida T, Takaki Y, Shimamura S, Nishi S, Harada M, Matsuyama K, Takishita K, Kawato M, Uematsu K, et al. Reduced genome of the thioautotrophic intracellular symbiont in a deep-sea clam, Calyptogena okutanii. Curr Biol 2007; 17:881-886. 🇯🇵

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 Vesicomyosocius" Kuwahara et al. 2007	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Kuwahara et al. (2007) assigned this genus to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Kuwahara H, Yoshida T, Takaki Y, Shimamura S, Nishi S, Harada M, Matsuyama K, Takishita K, Kawato M, Uematsu K, et al. Reduced genome of the thioautotrophic intracellular symbiont in a deep-sea clam, Calyptogena okutanii. Curr Biol 2007; 17:881-886. 🇯🇵
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Vesicomyosocius" Kuwahara et al. 2007. Publication: Kuwahara H, Yoshida T, Takaki Y, Shimamura S, Nishi S, Harada M, Matsuyama K, Takishita K, Kawato M, Uematsu K, et al. Reduced genome of the thioautotrophic intracellular symbiont in a deep-sea clam, Calyptogena okutanii. Curr Biol 2007; 17:881-886. 🇯🇵
  • 🧍 See also Russell et al. (2020). Publication: Russell SL, Pepper-Tunick E, Svedberg J, Byrne A, Ruelas Castillo J, Vollmers C, Beinart RA, Corbett-Detig R. Horizontal transmission and recombination maintain forever young bacterial symbiont genomes. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008935. 🇺🇸

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 Vesicomyidisocius atacamensis" corrig. Carrizo et al. 2026	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Vesicomyidisocius calyptogenae" corrig. Kuwahara et al. 2007	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Pseudothioglobaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023

Assigned by: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0. 🇦🇺

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