Name: "Cephaloticoccus primus" Lin et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pri’mus. L. masc. adj. primus, first, the first to be found

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC TSD-38; CAG34; NCIMB 15004

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM066004 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Lin JY, Russell JA, Sanders JG, Wertz JT. Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3034-3040.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4306-4309.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Cephaloticoccus" Lin et al. 2016. Publication: Lin JY, Russell JA, Sanders JG, Wertz JT. Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3034-3040.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🧍 Regarded as not validly published. The name is not validly published as Lin et al. 2016 did not designate a type species for the genus Cephaloticoccus [Rule 27(3)]. Publication: Lin JY, Russell JA, Sanders JG, Wertz JT. Corrigendum: Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:523.
  • 🧍 The type species of the genus Cephaloticoccus was designated in a corrigendum: IJSEM 67:523. Publication: Lin JY, Russell JA, Sanders JG, Wertz JT. Corrigendum: Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:523.

Parent taxon: "Cephaloticoccus" Lin et al. 2016

Assigned by: Lin JY, Russell JA, Sanders JG, Wertz JT. Cephaloticoccus gen. nov., a new genus of 'Verrucomicrobia' containing two novel species isolated from Cephalotes ant guts. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3034-3040.

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