Name: "Candidatus Sulfurimonas baltica" Henkel et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: bal’ti.ca. M.L. fem. adj. baltica, pertaining to the Baltic Sea

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … BAL-ti-ka, feminine

Nomenclatural type: DSM 111898; GD2; JCM 39138

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16S rRNA gene: CP054492 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Henkel JV, Vogts A, Werner J, Neu TR, Sproer C, Bunk B, Schulz-Vogt HN. Candidatus Sulfurimonas marisnigri sp. nov. and Candidatus Sulfurimonas baltica sp. nov., thiotrophic manganese oxide reducing chemolithoautotrophs of the class Campylobacteria isolated from the pelagic redoxclines of the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126155. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A. Candidatus list no. 4. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5545.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

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

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧍 Proposed as Candidatus name "because the deposition in culture collections takes longer that (sic) we have had expected" (abuse of the concept). Publication: Murray RG, Stackebrandt E. Taxonomic note: implementation of the provisional status Candidatus for incompletely described procaryotes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:186-187. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Sulfurimonas Inagaki et al. 2003

Assigned by: Henkel JV, Vogts A, Werner J, Neu TR, Sproer C, Bunk B, Schulz-Vogt HN. Candidatus Sulfurimonas marisnigri sp. nov. and Candidatus Sulfurimonas baltica sp. nov., thiotrophic manganese oxide reducing chemolithoautotrophs of the class Campylobacteria isolated from the pelagic redoxclines of the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126155. 🇩🇪

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