Name: "Candidatus Amoebophilus" Horn et al. 2001

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: A.moe’bo.phi.lus. N.L. masc. n. Amoebophilus, pertaining to the obligate intracellular life style of the bacteria in free-living amoebae

Gender: masculine (stem: Amoebophil-)

Type species: "Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus" Horn et al. 2001

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Horn M, Harzenetter MD, Linner T, Schmid EN, Muller KD, Michel R, Wagner M. Members of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides phylum as intracellular bacteria of acanthamoebae: proposal of 'Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus'. Environ Microbiol 2001; 3:440-449.

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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Amoebophilaceae" Santos-Garcia et al. 2014. 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.
  • 🧕 Horn et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the phylum "Bacteroidetes". Publication: Horn M, Harzenetter MD, Linner T, Schmid EN, Muller KD, Michel R, Wagner M. Members of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides phylum as intracellular bacteria of acanthamoebae: proposal of 'Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus'. Environ Microbiol 2001; 3:440-449.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus" Horn et al. 2001	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Amoebophilaceae" Santos-Garcia et al. 2014

Assigned by: 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.

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