Name: "Colettsia" Breed et al. 1957

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Colettsia, an arbitrarily formed generic name from Prof. J. D. W. A. Coles, the first to study these organisms, and an arbitrarily formed suffix taken from Rickettsia

Gender: feminine (stem: Colettsi-)

Type species: "Colettsia pecoris" Breed et al. 1957

Original publication: Breed RS, Murray EG, Smith NR. Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th ed. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1957.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Colettsia pecoris" Breed et al. 1957	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Chlamydiaceae Rake 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.

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Record number: 62881