Name: Lacunisphaera limnophila Rast et al. 2025

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

Pronunciation, gender: lim-NO-p^hi-la, feminine

Type strain: DSM 26815; IG16b; LMG 29469

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX058882 Analyse FASTA

Effective 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Lacunisphaera Rast et al. 2025. 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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-10-21.

Parent taxon: Lacunisphaera Rast et al. 2025

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: 67949