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Species "Candidatus Salinibacter pepae"
Name: "Candidatus Salinibacter pepae" Viver et al. 2023
Etymology: pe’pae. N.L. gen. fem. n. pepae, named after the microbiologist Pepa Antón expert in bacteria and viruses in extremophilic sites and who discovered the existence of the first Salinibacter
Nomenclatural type: CECT 30522; ESAV49T
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Original publication:
Viver T, Conrad RE, Lucio M, Harir M, Urdiain M, Gago JF, Suarez-Suarez A, Bustos-Caparros E, Sanchez-Martinez R, Mayol E, et al. Description of two cultivated and two uncultivated new Salinibacter species, one named following the rules of the bacteriological code: Salinibacter grassmerensis sp. nov.; and three named following the rules of the SeqCode: Salinibacter pepae sp. nov., Salinibacter abyssi sp. nov., and Salinibacter pampae sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2023; 46:126416. 
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)
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Notes:
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🧍 Proposed as Candidatus name (or equivalent) although a culture is available. The article mentions the SeqCode. This SeqCode is not an officially recognized code of nomenclature. In fact, the use of the SeqCode is officially discouraged. ICNP-compliant databases and publications are not allowed to use the SeqCode. The SeqCode deliberately and systematically violates the ICNP. The SeqCode attempts to undermine the scientific standard called "valid publication of the name of a prokaryote" by lowering the requirements compared to the ICNP, but using the same term and assigning it to names whose formation is indistinguishable from the one used by the ICNP. LPSN follows the ICNP and treats such names as not validly published.
Publication:
Goker M, Moore ERB, Oren A, Trujillo ME. Status of the SeqCode in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5754.
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🧍 Proposed as Candidatus name (or equivalent) although a culture is available. The article mentions the SeqCode. This SeqCode is not an officially recognized code of nomenclature. In fact, the use of the SeqCode is officially discouraged. ICNP-compliant databases and publications are not allowed to use the SeqCode. The SeqCode deliberately and systematically violates the ICNP. The SeqCode attempts to undermine the scientific standard called "valid publication of the name of a prokaryote" by lowering the requirements compared to the ICNP, but using the same term and assigning it to names whose formation is indistinguishable from the one used by the ICNP. LPSN follows the ICNP and treats such names as not validly published.
Publication:
Goker M, Moore ERB, Oren A, Trujillo ME. Status of the SeqCode in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5754.
Parent taxon: "Candidatus Salinibacter" Antón et al. 2000
Assigned by:
Viver T, Conrad RE, Lucio M, Harir M, Urdiain M, Gago JF, Suarez-Suarez A, Bustos-Caparros E, Sanchez-Martinez R, Mayol E, et al. Description of two cultivated and two uncultivated new Salinibacter species, one named following the rules of the bacteriological code: Salinibacter grassmerensis sp. nov.; and three named following the rules of the SeqCode: Salinibacter pepae sp. nov., Salinibacter abyssi sp. nov., and Salinibacter pampae sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2023; 46:126416.
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Record number: 37053
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