Name: "Candidatus Chlorobium masyuteum" Lambrecht et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: ma.syu.te’um. N.L. neut. n. masyuteum, from mas’yúte, meaning ‘eats iron’ in the Dakota language spoken by the first caretakers of Brownie Lake

Gender: neuter

Nomenclatural type: BLA1 in defined coculture with a Pseudopelobacter sp SKOL

Effective publication: Lambrecht N, Stevenson Z, Sheik CS, Pronschinske MA, Tong H, Swanner ED. "Candidatus Chlorobium masyuteum," a Novel Photoferrotrophic Green Sulfur Bacterium Enriched From a Ferruginous Meromictic Lake. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:695260. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Lambrecht N, Stevenson Z, Sheik CS, Pronschinske MA, Tong H, Swanner ED. "Candidatus Chlorobium masyuteum," a Novel Photoferrotrophic Green Sulfur Bacterium Enriched From a Ferruginous Meromictic Lake. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:695260. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 20996

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