Meganema

Meganema
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alpha Proteobacteria
Order:	Rhizobiales
Family:	Methylobacteriaceae
Genus:	Meganema; Thomsen et al. 2006[1]
Type species
	Meganema perideroedes[1];
Species
	M. perideroedes[1]

Meganema is a genus of bacteria.[1][2] Up to now there is only one species of this genus known (Meganema perideroedes).[1][3] The genus of Meganema got renamed to Neomegalonema[4] in 2017.

References

LPSN bacterio.net
UniProt
Thomsen, T. R.; Blackall, L. L.; De Muro, M. A.; Nielsen, J. L.; Nielsen, P. H. (2006). "Meganema perideroedes gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous alphaproteobacterium from activated sludge". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56 (Pt 8): 1865–8. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02916-0. PMID 16902022.
Oren, Aharon (October 2017). "On names of genera of prokaryotes that are later homonyms of generic names with standing in the zoological or the botanical nomenclature. Proposal of Neomegalonema gen. nov. and Neomegalonema perideroedes comb. nov. as replacements for the prokaryotic generic name Meganema and the species name Meganema perideroedes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67 (10): 4276–4278. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002349. ISSN 1466-5034. PMID 28933323.

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[Meganema-1] LPSN bacterio.net

[2] UniProt

[3] Thomsen, T. R.; Blackall, L. L.; De Muro, M. A.; Nielsen, J. L.; Nielsen, P. H. (2006). "Meganema perideroedes gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous alphaproteobacterium from activated sludge". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56 (Pt 8): 1865–8. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02916-0. PMID 16902022.

[4] Oren, Aharon (October 2017). "On names of genera of prokaryotes that are later homonyms of generic names with standing in the zoological or the botanical nomenclature. Proposal of Neomegalonema gen. nov. and Neomegalonema perideroedes comb. nov. as replacements for the prokaryotic generic name Meganema and the species name Meganema perideroedes". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67 (10): 4276–4278. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002349. ISSN 1466-5034. PMID 28933323.