Name: Planctomyces bekefii Gimesi 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: be.ke’fi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. bekefii, of Békefi, named for Remigius Békefi (1858-1924), cultural historian, university professor, and abbot of the Hungarian Cistercian Order

Gender: masculine

Type strain: no culture isolated

Effective publication: Gimesi N. Hydrobiologiai talmanyok (Hydrobiologische Studien). I. Planktomyces bekefii Gim. nov. gen. et sp. Kiadja a Magyar Ciszterci Rend, Budapest, 1924.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Planctomyces Gimesi 1924 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Gimesi N. Hydrobiologiai talmanyok (Hydrobiologische Studien). I. Planktomyces bekefii Gim. nov. gen. et sp. Kiadja a Magyar Ciszterci Rend, Budapest, 1924.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Yarza et al. (2013), an "un-sequenced orphan species where descriptions, illustrations or dead preserved material serve as the type. Originally described as fungi.". Publication: Yarza P, Sproer C, Swiderski J, Mrotzek N, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Lang E, et al. Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:69-73.
  • 🧍 A genome sequence of the species was obtained by Dedysh et al. (2020). — 🧍 Planctomyces bekefii is the first representative of the phylum Planctomycetes and is a rare example of as-yet-uncultivated prokaryotes with validly published names and unknown identity. Dedysh et al. (2020) report the results of a molecular identification of this elusive bacterium, which was detected in a eutrophic boreal lake in Northern Russia. Publication: Dedysh SN, Henke P, Ivanova AA, Kulichevskaya IS, Philippov DA, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Goker M, Huang S, Overmann J. 100-year-old enigma solved: identification, genomic characterization and biogeography of the yet uncultured Planctomyces bekefii. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:198-211.

Parent taxon: Planctomyces Gimesi 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Gimesi N. Hydrobiologiai talmanyok (Hydrobiologische Studien). I. Planktomyces bekefii Gim. nov. gen. et sp. Kiadja a Magyar Ciszterci Rend, Budapest, 1924.

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