Genus "Candidatus Aschnera"

Name: "Candidatus Aschnera" Hosokawa et al. 2012

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Asch’ne.ra. N.L. fem. n. Aschnera, named after Manfred Ashner who first described the endosymbionts of nycteribiid bat flies

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Aschner-), AS͡H-ne-ra

Type species: "Candidatus Aschnera chinzeii" Hosokawa et al. 2012

16S rRNA gene: Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Hosokawa T, Nikoh N, Koga R, Sato M, Tanahashi M, Meng XY, Fukatsu T. Reductive genome evolution, host-symbiont co-speciation and uterine transmission of endosymbiotic bacteria in bat flies. ISME J 2012; 6:577-587. 🇯🇵

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

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

Parent taxon: [Gammaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 13399

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