Name: "Candidatus Clavichlamydiaceae" Horn 2010

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Cla.vi.chla.my.di.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Clavichlamydia, a (Candidatus) bacterial genus name; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Clavichlamydiaceae, the Clavichlamydia family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: kla-wi-khla-my-di-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Clavichlamydia" corrig. Karlsen et al. 2008

Effective publication: Horn M. Family II. “Candidatus Clavichlamydiaceae”. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, et al. (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 865. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Chlamydiaceae Rake 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Parent taxon: Chlamydiales Storz and Page 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Everett KD, Bush RM, Andersen AA. Emended description of the order Chlamydiales, proposal of Parachlamydiaceae fam. nov. and Simkaniaceae fam. nov., each containing one monotypic genus, revised taxonomy of the family Chlamydiaceae, including a new genus and five new species, and standards for the identification of organisms. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:415-440. 🇺🇸

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