Name: "Candidatus Methylopumilus planktonicus" Salcher et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: plank.to’ni.cus. N.L. masc. adj. planktonicus, living in the plankton, planktonic

Pronunciation, gender: plank-TO-ni-kus, masculine

Nomenclatural type: MMS-10A-171; MMS-2-53

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LN827929 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Salcher MM, Neuenschwander SM, Posch T, Pernthaler J. The ecology of pelagic freshwater methylotrophs assessed by a high-resolution monitoring and isolation campaign. ISME J 2015; 9:2442-2453.

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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Methylopumilus" Salcher et al. 2015. Publication: Salcher MM, Neuenschwander SM, Posch T, Pernthaler J. The ecology of pelagic freshwater methylotrophs assessed by a high-resolution monitoring and isolation campaign. ISME J 2015; 9:2442-2453.
  • 🧍 A type species was not chosen by its authors as the type species of its non-monotypic genus, but this species was designated as the type species in Appendix 3 of Candidatus List No. 7.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Methylopumilus" Salcher et al. 2015

Assigned by: Salcher MM, Neuenschwander SM, Posch T, Pernthaler J. The ecology of pelagic freshwater methylotrophs assessed by a high-resolution monitoring and isolation campaign. ISME J 2015; 9:2442-2453.

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Record number: 2758