Genus Limisphaera

Name: Limisphaera Anders et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Li.mi.sphae’ra. L. masc. n. limus, mud, sludge, silt; Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, a ball, sphere, globe; N.L. fem. n. Limisphaera, a mud sphere

Gender: feminine (stem: Limisphaer-)

Type species: Limisphaera ngatamarikiensis Anders et al. 2015

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Anders H, Power JF, MacKenzie AD, Lagutin K, Vyssotski M, Hanssen E, Moreau JW, Stott MB. Limisphaera ngatamarikiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, pink-pigmented coccus isolated from subaqueous mud of a geothermal hotspring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1114-1121.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2026-2027.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Limisphaeraceae Podosokorskaya et al. 2023

Assigned by: Podosokorskaya OA, Elcheninov AG, Novikov AA, Merkel AY, Kublanov IV. Fontisphaera persica gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic hydrolytic bacterium from a hot spring of Baikal lake region, and proposal of Fontisphaeraceae fam. nov., and Limisphaeraceae fam. nov. within the Limisphaerales ord. nov. (Verrucomicrobiota). Syst Appl Microbiol 2023; 46:126438.

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Record number: 518707
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