Name: "Candidatus Vesicomyosocius" Kuwahara et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine, we-si-ko-my-o-SO-ki-us

Type species: "Candidatus Vesicomyosocius calyptogenae" Kuwahara et al. 2007

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: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Vesicomyidisocius" corrig. Kuwahara et al. 2007

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Vesicomyidisocius" corrig. Kuwahara et al. 2007	corrected spelling of name, pro-validly published under the ICNP

• 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. 🇯🇵
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Vesicomyosicus".
  • 🧍 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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Vesicomyosocius atacamensis" Carrizo et al. 2026	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Vesicomyosocius calyptogenae" Kuwahara et al. 2007	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Vesicomyosocius endoextente" Russell et al. 2020	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Vesicomyosocius okutanii" Kuwahara et al. 2007	inaccurate spelling	misspelling

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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