Name: "Lacunisphaera limnophila" Rast et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lim.no’phi.la. Gr. fem. n. limnê, lake; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, loving; N.L. fem. adj. limnophila, lake loving

Gender: feminine

Nomenclatural type: DSM 26815; IG16b; LMG 29469

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX058882 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Rast P, Glockner I, Boedeker C, Jeske O, Wiegand S, Reinhardt R, Schumann P, Rohde M, Spring S, Glockner FO, et al. Three Novel Species with Peptidoglycan Cell Walls form the New Genus Lacunisphaera gen. nov. in the Family Opitutaceae of the Verrucomicrobial Subdivision 4. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:202.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Lacunisphaera" Rast et al. 2017. Publication: Rast P, Glockner I, Boedeker C, Jeske O, Wiegand S, Reinhardt R, Schumann P, Rohde M, Spring S, Glockner FO, et al. Three Novel Species with Peptidoglycan Cell Walls form the New Genus Lacunisphaera gen. nov. in the Family Opitutaceae of the Verrucomicrobial Subdivision 4. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:202.

Parent taxon: "Lacunisphaera" Rast et al. 2017

Assigned by: Rast P, Glockner I, Boedeker C, Jeske O, Wiegand S, Reinhardt R, Schumann P, Rohde M, Spring S, Glockner FO, et al. Three Novel Species with Peptidoglycan Cell Walls form the New Genus Lacunisphaera gen. nov. in the Family Opitutaceae of the Verrucomicrobial Subdivision 4. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:202.

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Record number: 13161