Name: "Candidatus Amoebophilaceae" Santos-Garcia et al. 2014

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: A.moe.bo.phi.la’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Amoebophilus, a Candidatus genus name; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Amoebophilaceae, the Candidatus Amoebophilus family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: a-mo͡e-bo-p^hi-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Amoebophilus" Horn et al. 2001

Original publication: Santos-Garcia D, Rollat-Farnier PA, Beitia F, Zchori-Fein E, Vavre F, Mouton L, Moya A, Latorre A, Silva FJ. The genome of Cardinium cBtQ1 provides insights into genome reduction, symbiont motility, and its settlement in Bemisia tabaci. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1013-1030. 🇪🇸

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: not pro-validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not pro-correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Santos-Garcia et al. (2014) assigned this family to the phylum "Bacteroidetes" Krieg et al. 2010. Publication: Santos-Garcia D, Rollat-Farnier PA, Beitia F, Zchori-Fein E, Vavre F, Mouton L, Moya A, Latorre A, Silva FJ. The genome of Cardinium cBtQ1 provides insights into genome reduction, symbiont motility, and its settlement in Bemisia tabaci. Genome Biol Evol 2014; 6:1013-1030. 🇪🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ameobophilaceae".
  • 🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Amoebophilus" Horn et al. 2001	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Bryopsidiphilus" Liu et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: [Bacteroidota, not assigned to order]

Assigned by: Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056. 🇮🇱

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Record number: 3017