Name: "Candidatus Amphibiichlamydia" Martel et al. 2012

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Am.phi.bi.i.chla.my’di.a. N.L. neut. pl. n. Amphibia, a class of animals, amphibians; N.L. fem. n. Chlamydia, a bacterial genus; N.L. fem. n. Amphibiichlamydia, a Chlamydia from amphibians

Gender: feminine (stem: Amphibiichlamydi-)

Type species: "Candidatus Amphibiichlamydia salamandrae" Martel et al. 2012

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Martel A, Adriaensen C, Bogaerts S, Ducatelle R, Favoreel H, Crameri S, Hyatt AD, Haesebrouck F, Pasmans F. Novel Chlamydiaceae disease in captive salamanders. Emerg Infect Dis 2012; 18:1020-1022.

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:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Amphibiochlamydia".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae. Minutes of the closed meeting, 31 March 2015, New Orleans, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:512-513.
  • 🧍 See also Martel et al. (2013). Publication: Martel A, Adriaensen C, Sharifian-Fard M, Vandewoestyne M, Deforce D, Favoreel H, Bergen K, Spitzen-van der Sluijs A, Devisscher S, Adriaens T, et al. The novel 'Candidatus Amphibiichlamydia ranarum' is highly prevalent in invasive exotic bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus). Environ Microbiol Rep 2013; 5:105-108.

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 Amphibiichlamydia ranarum" Martel et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Amphibiichlamydia salamandrae" Martel et al. 2012	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Chlamydiaceae Rake 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Martel A, Adriaensen C, Sharifian-Fard M, Vandewoestyne M, Deforce D, Favoreel H, Bergen K, Spitzen-van der Sluijs A, Devisscher S, Adriaens T, et al. The novel 'Candidatus Amphibiichlamydia ranarum' is highly prevalent in invasive exotic bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus). Environ Microbiol Rep 2013; 5:105-108.

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