Name: "Candidatus Nitrosospongia ianthellae" Moeller et al. 2019

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: N.L. gen. fem. n. ianthellae, refers to its discovery and description as a symbiont of the marine sponge, I. basta

Gender: feminine

Original publication: Moeller FU, Webster NS, Herbold CW, Behnam F, Domman D, Albertsen M, Mooshammer M, Markert S, Turaev D, Becher D, et al. Characterization of a thaumarchaeal symbiont that drives incomplete nitrification in the tropical sponge Ianthella basta. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:3831-3854.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Candidatus list no. 2. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4671.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Nitrosospongia" Moeller et al. 2019. Publication: Moeller FU, Webster NS, Herbold CW, Behnam F, Domman D, Albertsen M, Mooshammer M, Markert S, Turaev D, Becher D, et al. Characterization of a thaumarchaeal symbiont that drives incomplete nitrification in the tropical sponge Ianthella basta. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:3831-3854.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Nitrosospongia" Moeller et al. 2019

Assigned by: Moeller FU, Webster NS, Herbold CW, Behnam F, Domman D, Albertsen M, Mooshammer M, Markert S, Turaev D, Becher D, et al. Characterization of a thaumarchaeal symbiont that drives incomplete nitrification in the tropical sponge Ianthella basta. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:3831-3854.

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Record number: 2774