Name: "Candidatus Bermanella macondensis" corrig. Hu et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: ma.con.den’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. macondensis, pertaining to Macondo, to reflect the region from within the Gulf of Mexico where this uncultured organism was obtained [probably better: macondonensis]; Macondo, refers to the Macondo Prospect, the site of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in 2010. The prospect was named after Macondo, the cursed fictional town in One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gender: feminine

Original publication: Hu P, Dubinsky EA, Probst AJ, Wang J, Sieber CMK, Tom LM, Gardinali PR, Banfield JF, Atlas RM, Andersen GL. Simulation of Deepwater Horizon oil plume reveals substrate specialization within a complex community of hydrocarbon degraders. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:7432-7437.

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: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Bermanella macondoprimitus" Hu et al. 2017	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

Parent taxon: Bermanella Pinhassi et al. 2009

Assigned by: Hu P, Dubinsky EA, Probst AJ, Wang J, Sieber CMK, Tom LM, Gardinali PR, Banfield JF, Atlas RM, Andersen GL. Simulation of Deepwater Horizon oil plume reveals substrate specialization within a complex community of hydrocarbon degraders. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:7432-7437.

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Record number: 22191