Name: "Candidatus Electrothrix aarhusensis" corrig. Trojan et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: aar.hus.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. aarhusensis, pertaining to Aarhus, a city in Denmark on the Jutland peninsula, referring to the place of the first discovery of cable bacteria

Gender: feminine

Type strain: AarhusBay_MCF4-14; MCF

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16S rRNA gene: KR912338 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. "Candidatus list no. 0." A plea for linguistic accuracy – also for Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1085-1094.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Electrothrix aarhusiensis" Trojan et al. 2016	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧍 The original spelling of this Candidatus name has been corrected by Oren (2017). Publication: Oren A. A plea for linguistic accuracy - also for Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1085-1094. Oren A. "Candidatus list no. 0." A plea for linguistic accuracy – also for Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1085-1094.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Electrothrix" 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: 800806