Name: "Candidatus Clavichlamydia" Karlsen et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Cla.vi.chla.my’di.a. L. fem. n. clava, cudgel, club; N.L. fem. n. Chlamydia, a bacterial genus; N.L. fem. n. Clavichlamydia, a club-shaped Chlamydia

Gender: feminine (stem: Clavichlamydi-)

Type species: "Candidatus Clavichlamydia salmonicola" corrig. Karlsen et al. 2008

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Karlsen M, Nylund A, Watanabe K, Helvik JV, Nylund S, Plarre H. Characterization of 'Candidatus Clavochlamydia salmonicola': an intracellular bacterium infecting salmonid fish. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:208-218.

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

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Clavichlamydiaceae" Horn 2011. Publication: Horn M. Family II. “Candidatus Clavichlamydiaceae”. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, et al. (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 865.
  • Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the family "Candidatus Clavichlamydiaceae" Horn 2011. Publication: Horn M. Family II. “Candidatus Clavichlamydiaceae”. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, et al. (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 865.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus [Clavochlamydia]. Publication: Karlsen M, Nylund A, Watanabe K, Helvik JV, Nylund S, Plarre H. Characterization of 'Candidatus Clavochlamydia salmonicola': an intracellular bacterium infecting salmonid fish. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:208-218.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Chlavochlamydia".

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 Clavichlamydia salmonicola" corrig. Karlsen et al. 2008	not validly published

Parent taxon: Chlamydiaceae Rake 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Karlsen M, Nylund A, Watanabe K, Helvik JV, Nylund S, Plarre H. Characterization of 'Candidatus Clavochlamydia salmonicola': an intracellular bacterium infecting salmonid fish. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:208-218.

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