Species "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex fumarolicum"

Name: "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex fumarolicum" corrig. Pol et al. 2007

Category, proposed as: species, Candidatus

Etymology: fu.ma.ro’li.cum. N.L. neut. adj. fumarolicum, referring to the habitat where the bacterium is living

Pronunciation (Latin): a-ki-di-me-t^hy-LO-si-lex fu-ma-RO-li-kum

Nomenclatural type: SolV

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EF591088 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Pol A, Heijmans K, Harhangi HR, Tedesco D, Jetten MS, Op den Camp HJ. Methanotrophy below pH 1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species. Nature 2007; 450:874-878. 🇳🇱

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: synonym

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum fumarolicum" corrig. Pol et al. 2007

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum fumarolicum" corrig. Pol et al. 2007	homotypic synonym, pro-validly published under the ICNP
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum" Pol et al. 2007	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex" Pol et al. 2007. Publication: Pol A, Heijmans K, Harhangi HR, Tedesco D, Jetten MS, Op den Camp HJ. Methanotrophy below pH 1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species. Nature 2007; 450:874-878. 🇳🇱
  • ❗ "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex fumarolicum" is the pro-correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published and legitimate or pro-validly published and pro-legitimate and not rejected and has priority or pro-priority) within a separate genus "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex".
  • 🧍 This species was confirmed as the type species of its monotypic genus in Appendix 1 of Candidatus List No. 6.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Acidimethylosilex" Pol et al. 2007

Assigned by: Pol A, Heijmans K, Harhangi HR, Tedesco D, Jetten MS, Op den Camp HJ. Methanotrophy below pH 1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species. Nature 2007; 450:874-878. 🇳🇱

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