Name: "Candidatus Electronema nielsenii" Trojan et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: niel.se’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. nielsenii, of Nielsen, named in honor of Lars Peter Nielsen, the Danish microbial ecologist who started the cable bacteria studies by discovering electric currents in the seafloor, the species has been extracted from his backyard

Gender: neuter

Type strain: Freshwater_Gib-F1

16S rRNA gene: KP728462 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Trojan D, Schreiber L, Bjerg JT, Boggild A, Yang T, Kjeldsen KU, Schramm A. A taxonomic framework for cable bacteria and proposal of the candidate genera Electrothrix and Electronema. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:297-306.

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)

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

Assigned by: Trojan D, Schreiber L, Bjerg JT, Boggild A, Yang T, Kjeldsen KU, Schramm A. A taxonomic framework for cable bacteria and proposal of the candidate genera Electrothrix and Electronema. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:297-306.

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Record number: 801245