Name: "Candidatus Heliomonas lunata" Asao et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: lu.na’ta. Gr. masc. n. hêlios, the sun; L. fem. n. monas, a unit; N.L. fem. n. Heliomonas, the solar unit; L. fem. adj. lunata, crescent-shaped, yielding Heliomonas lunata, the solar unit of crescent-shaped cells

Gender: feminine

Type strain: SLH

16S rRNA gene: EU910943 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Asao M, Takaichi S, Madigan MT. Amino acid-assimilating phototrophic heliobacteria from soda lake environments: Heliorestis acidaminivorans sp. nov. and 'Candidatus Heliomonas lunata'. Extremophiles 2012; 16:585-595.

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)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Heliomonas" Asao et al. 2012. Publication: Asao M, Takaichi S, Madigan MT. Amino acid-assimilating phototrophic heliobacteria from soda lake environments: Heliorestis acidaminivorans sp. nov. and 'Candidatus Heliomonas lunata'. Extremophiles 2012; 16:585-595.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Heliomonas" Asao et al. 2012

Assigned by: Asao M, Takaichi S, Madigan MT. Amino acid-assimilating phototrophic heliobacteria from soda lake environments: Heliorestis acidaminivorans sp. nov. and 'Candidatus Heliomonas lunata'. Extremophiles 2012; 16:585-595.

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Record number: 800500