Name: Tetrasphaera Maszenan et al. 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Te.tra.sphae’ra. Gr. pref. tetra-, four (in compound words); Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, sphere; N.L. fem. n. Tetrasphaera, four spherical bacterial cells

Gender: feminine (stem: Tetrasphaer-)

Type species: Tetrasphaera japonica Maszenan et al. 2000

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Maszenan AM, Seviour RJ, Patel BK, Schumann P, Burghardt J, Tokiwa Y, Stratton HM. Three isolates of novel polyphosphate-accumulating gram-positive cocci, obtained from activated sludge, belong to a new genus, Tetrasphaera gen. nov., and description of two new species, Tetrasphaera japonica sp. nov. and Tetrasphaera australiensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:593-603.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:951-953.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: in need of a replacement

Risk group: 1

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 8
Total number of child taxa: 8

Parent taxon: Intrasporangiaceae Rainey et al. 1997

Assigned by: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.

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