Name: "Candidatus Berkiella" Mehari et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ber.ki.el’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Berkiella, named after Sharon G. Berk for her contributions to the study of interactions between protozoa and bacteria

Gender: feminine (stem: Berkiell-)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Mehari YT, Jason Hayes B, Redding KS, Mariappan PVG, Gunderson JH, Farone AL, Farone MB. Description of 'Candidatus Berkiella aquae' and 'Candidatus Berkiella cookevillensis', two intranuclear bacteria of freshwater amoebae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:536-541.

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 Berkiellaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Candidatus Berkiellales" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family "Candidatus Berkiellaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order "Candidatus Berkiellales" Chuvochina et al. 2023. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.

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 Berkiella aquae" Mehari et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Berkiella cookevillensis" Mehari et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Coxiellaceae Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: Mehari YT, Jason Hayes B, Redding KS, Mariappan PVG, Gunderson JH, Farone AL, Farone MB. Description of 'Candidatus Berkiella aquae' and 'Candidatus Berkiella cookevillensis', two intranuclear bacteria of freshwater amoebae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:536-541.

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