Name: "Candidatus Desulfamplus magnetomortis" Lefèvre et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: ma.gne.to.mor.tis. L. gen. fem. n. mortis, of death; N.L. gen. fem. n. magnetomortis

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BW-1; DSM 103535; JCM 18010

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16S rRNA gene: JN252194 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Lefevre CT, Menguy N, Abreu F, Lins U, Posfai M, Prozorov T, Pignol D, Frankel RB, Bazylinski DA. A cultured greigite-producing magnetotactic bacterium in a novel group of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Science 2011; 334:1720-1723.

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: "Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis" Descamps et al. 2017

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis" Descamps et al. 2017	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Desulfamplus" Lefèvre et al. 2011. Publication: Lefevre CT, Menguy N, Abreu F, Lins U, Posfai M, Prozorov T, Pignol D, Frankel RB, Bazylinski DA. A cultured greigite-producing magnetotactic bacterium in a novel group of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Science 2011; 334:1720-1723.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Desulfamplus" Lefèvre et al. 2011

Assigned by: Lefevre CT, Menguy N, Abreu F, Lins U, Posfai M, Prozorov T, Pignol D, Frankel RB, Bazylinski DA. A cultured greigite-producing magnetotactic bacterium in a novel group of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Science 2011; 334:1720-1723.

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Record number: 8165