Name: "Candidatus Thiodictyon syntrophicum" Peduzzi et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: syn.tro’phi.cum. Gr. prep. syn, together with; Gr. masc. adj. trophikos, nursing, tending or feeding; N.L. neut. adj. syntrophicum, syntrophic

Gender: neuter

Type strain: Cad16

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16S rRNA gene: AJ511274 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Peduzzi S, Storelli N, Welsh A, Peduzzi R, Hahn D, Perret X, Tonolla M. Candidatus "Thiodictyon syntrophicum", sp. nov., a new purple sulfur bacterium isolated from the chemocline of Lake Cadagno forming aggregates and specific associations with Desulfocapsa sp. Syst Appl Microbiol 2012; 35:139-144.

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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Thiodictyon Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Peduzzi S, Storelli N, Welsh A, Peduzzi R, Hahn D, Perret X, Tonolla M. Candidatus "Thiodictyon syntrophicum", sp. nov., a new purple sulfur bacterium isolated from the chemocline of Lake Cadagno forming aggregates and specific associations with Desulfocapsa sp. Syst Appl Microbiol 2012; 35:139-144.

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Record number: 800266