Name: "Candidatus Gloeomargarita lithophora" Couradeau et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: li.tho’pho.ra. N.L. fem. adj. suff. -phora; N.L. fem. adj. lithophora, carrier of stones

Gender: feminine

Type strain: Alchichica-D10; CCAP 1437/1; D10; PMC 919.15

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16S rRNA gene: JQ733894 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Couradeau E, Benzerara K, Gerard E, Moreira D, Bernard S, Brown GEJ, Lopez-Garcia P. An early-branching microbialite cyanobacterium forms intracellular carbonates. Science 2012; 336:459-462.

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: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Gloeomargarita lithophora Moreira et al. 2017

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Gloeomargarita lithophora Moreira et al. 2017	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)

Parent taxon: Gloeomargarita Moreira et al. 2017

Assigned by: Couradeau E, Benzerara K, Gerard E, Moreira D, Bernard S, Brown GEJ, Lopez-Garcia P. An early-branching microbialite cyanobacterium forms intracellular carbonates. Science 2012; 336:459-462.

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Record number: 970