Name: "Candidatus Magnetococcus marinus" Lefèvre et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: ma.ri’nus. L. masc. adj. marinus, marine

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1437; JCM 17883; MC-1

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16S rRNA gene: CP000471 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Lefevre CT, Viloria N, Schmidt ML, Posfai M, Frankel RB, Bazylinski DA. Novel magnetite-producing magnetotactic bacteria belonging to the Gammaproteobacteria. ISME J 2012; 6:440-450.

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: Magnetococcus marinus Bazylinski et al. 2013

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Magnetococcus marinus Bazylinski et al. 2013	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Magnetococcus" Lefèvre et al. 2012

Assigned by: Lefevre CT, Viloria N, Schmidt ML, Posfai M, Frankel RB, Bazylinski DA. Novel magnetite-producing magnetotactic bacteria belonging to the Gammaproteobacteria. ISME J 2012; 6:440-450.

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Record number: 36355