Name: "Candidatus Electrothrix aestuarii" Plum-Jensen et al. 2024

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: aes.tu.a’ri.i. L. gen. neut. n. aestuarii, of a tidal flat or estuary, referring to the habitat it was collected from

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: e-LEK-tro-t^hrix a͡es-tu-A-ri-i, feminine

Nomenclatural type: GCA_032595685; GCA_032595685.1; Rat1

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Original publication: Plum-Jensen LE, Schramm A, Marshall IPG. First single-strain enrichments of Electrothrix cable bacteria, description of E. aestuarii sp. nov. and E. rattekaaiensis sp. nov., and proposal of a cable bacteria taxonomy following the rules of the SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2024; 47:126487. 🇩🇰

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧍 The article mentions the SeqCode. This SeqCode is not an officially recognized code of nomenclature. In fact, the use of the SeqCode is officially discouraged. ICNP-compliant databases and publications are not allowed to use the SeqCode. The SeqCode deliberately and systematically violates the ICNP. The SeqCode attempts to undermine the scientific standard called "valid publication of the name of a prokaryote" by lowering the requirements compared to the ICNP, but using the same term and assigning it to names whose formation is indistinguishable from the one used by the ICNP. LPSN follows the ICNP and treats such names as not validly published. Publication: Goker M, Moore ERB, Oren A, Trujillo ME. Status of the SeqCode in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5754. 🇩🇪

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

Assigned by: Plum-Jensen LE, Schramm A, Marshall IPG. First single-strain enrichments of Electrothrix cable bacteria, description of E. aestuarii sp. nov. and E. rattekaaiensis sp. nov., and proposal of a cable bacteria taxonomy following the rules of the SeqCode. Syst Appl Microbiol 2024; 47:126487. 🇩🇰

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