Name: "Candidatus Electronema aureum" Thorup et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: au’re.um. L. neut. adj. aureum, golden

Gender: neuter

Type strain: GS

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Original publication: Thorup C, Petro C, Boggild A, Ebsen TS, Brokjaer S, Nielsen LP, Schramm A, Bjerg JJ. How to grow your cable bacteria: Establishment of a stable single-strain culture in sediment and proposal of Candidatus Electronema aureum GS. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126236.

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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Electronema" Trojan et al. 2016

Assigned by: Thorup C, Petro C, Boggild A, Ebsen TS, Brokjaer S, Nielsen LP, Schramm A, Bjerg JJ. How to grow your cable bacteria: Establishment of a stable single-strain culture in sediment and proposal of Candidatus Electronema aureum GS. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126236.

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Record number: 21008