Name: "Candidatus Midichloriaceae" Montagna et al. 2013

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Mi.di.chlo.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Midichloria, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Midichloriaceae, the family of the genus Candidatus Midichloria

Pronunciation, gender: mi-di-k^hlo-ri-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Midichloria" Sassera et al. 2006

Effective publication: Montagna M, Sassera D, Epis S, Bazzocchi C, Vannini C, Lo N, Sacchi L, Fukatsu T, Petroni G, Bandi C. "Candidatus Midichloriaceae" fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an ecologically widespread clade of intracellular alphaproteobacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:3241-3248.

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: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Boscaro et al. (2013) assigned the genus Lyticum (ex Preer et al. 1974) Preer and Preer 1982 to this family. Publication: Boscaro V, Schrallhammer M, Benken KA, Krenek S, Szokoli F, Berendonk TU, Schweikert M, Verni F, Sabaneyeva EV, Petroni G. Rediscovering the genus Lyticum, multiflagellated symbionts of the order Rickettsiales. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3305.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Midichloraceae".

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: 13

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Aquarickettsia" Klinges et al. 2019	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Aquirickettsia" corrig. Klinges et al. 2019	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Bandiella" Senra et al. 2016	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Cyrtobacter" Vannini et al. 2010	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Defluviella" Boscaro et al. 2013	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Euplotella" Boscaro et al. 2019	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Fokinia" Szokoli et al. 2016	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Grellia" Gruber-Vodicka et al. 2019	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Grelliella" corrig. Gruber-Vodicka et al. 2019	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Jidaibacter" Schulz et al. 2016	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Lariskella" Matsuura et al. 2012	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Midichloria" Sassera et al. 2006	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Pseudolyticum" Boss et al. 1987	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Montagna M, Sassera D, Epis S, Bazzocchi C, Vannini C, Lo N, Sacchi L, Fukatsu T, Petroni G, Bandi C. "Candidatus Midichloriaceae" fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an ecologically widespread clade of intracellular alphaproteobacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:3241-3248.

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Record number: 169