Name: "Candidatus Dichloromethanomonas elyunquensis" Kleindienst et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: el.yun.quen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. elyunquensis, of the El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, the origin of the culture

Gender: feminine

Type strain: RM

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KU341776 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Kleindienst S, Higgins SA, Tsementzi D, Chen G, Konstantinidis KT, Mack EE, Loffler FE. 'Candidatus Dichloromethanomonas elyunquensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., a dichloromethane-degrading anaerobe of the Peptococcaceae family. Syst Appl Microbiol 2017; 40:150-159.

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)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Dichloromethanomonas" Kleindienst et al. 2017. Publication: Kleindienst S, Higgins SA, Tsementzi D, Chen G, Konstantinidis KT, Mack EE, Loffler FE. 'Candidatus Dichloromethanomonas elyunquensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., a dichloromethane-degrading anaerobe of the Peptococcaceae family. Syst Appl Microbiol 2017; 40:150-159.
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Dichloromethanomonas" Kleindienst et al. 2017

Assigned by: Kleindienst S, Higgins SA, Tsementzi D, Chen G, Konstantinidis KT, Mack EE, Loffler FE. 'Candidatus Dichloromethanomonas elyunquensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., a dichloromethane-degrading anaerobe of the Peptococcaceae family. Syst Appl Microbiol 2017; 40:150-159.

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Record number: 2418