Name: "Candidatus Syntrophus pelomyxae" Treitli et al. 2023

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: pe.lo.my’xae. N.L. gen. fem. n. pelomyxae, of Pelomyxa, a genus of amoebae, referring to the host

Gender: masculine

Type strain: SKADARSKE-3

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Original publication: Treitli SC, Hanouskova P, Benes V, Brune A, Cepicka I, Hampl V. Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is the key process in the obligately syntrophic consortium of the anaerobic ameba Pelomyxa schiedti. ISME J 2023; 17:1884-1894.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Syntrophus Mountfort et al. 1984

Assigned by: Treitli SC, Hanouskova P, Benes V, Brune A, Cepicka I, Hampl V. Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is the key process in the obligately syntrophic consortium of the anaerobic ameba Pelomyxa schiedti. ISME J 2023; 17:1884-1894.

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Record number: 41212