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

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

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

Type strain: no type strain designated; SolV

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16S rRNA gene: EF591088 Analyse FASTA

Original 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

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum fumarolicum" corrig. Pol et al. 2007

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum" Pol et al. 2007	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling
    "Candidatus Methylacidiphilum fumarolicum" corrig. Pol et al. 2007	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• 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.

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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Record number: 800873