Name: Cowdria Moshkovski 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Cowdr’i.a. N.L. fem. n. Cowdria, named for E. V. Cowdry, who first described the organism in heartwater diseases of sheep, goats, and cattle

Gender: feminine (stem: Cowdri-)

Type species: Cowdria ruminantium (Cowdry 1925) Moshkovski 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Moshkovski SD. Comments by readers. Science (Washington) 1947; 106:62.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Ehrlichia Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Ehrlichia Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • Breed et al. (1948) assigned this genus to the family Rickettsiaceae Pinkerton 1936 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
  • Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the tribe Ehrlichieae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: 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.
  • Dumler et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Anaplasmataceae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Dumler JS, Barbet AF, Bekker CP, Dasch GA, Palmer GH, Ray SC, Rikihisa Y, Rurangirwa FR. Reorganization of genera in the families Rickettsiaceae and Anaplasmataceae in the order Rickettsiales: unification of some species of Ehrlichia with Anaplasma, Cowdria with Ehrlichia and Ehrlichia with Neorickettsia, descriptions of six new species combinations and designation of Ehrlichia equi and 'HGE agent' as subjective synonyms of Ehrlichia phagocytophila. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:2145-2165.
  • Philip (1962) assigned this genus to the tribe Ehrlichieae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Philip CB. Appendix G. Summary of tickborne rickettsioses. Report 2nd Meeting FAOIE Expert Panel on Tick-borne Diseases of Livestock, Cairo. United Nations, Rome, 1962.
  • For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Ehrlichia Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Dumler JS, Barbet AF, Bekker CP, Dasch GA, Palmer GH, Ray SC, Rikihisa Y, Rurangirwa FR. Reorganization of genera in the families Rickettsiaceae and Anaplasmataceae in the order Rickettsiales: unification of some species of Ehrlichia with Anaplasma, Cowdria with Ehrlichia and Ehrlichia with Neorickettsia, descriptions of six new species combinations and designation of Ehrlichia equi and 'HGE agent' as subjective synonyms of Ehrlichia phagocytophila. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:2145-2165.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Cawdria"; "Cawdryia"; "Cowdryia".
  • Cowdria is the correct name if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "CWDR" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Cowdria ruminantium (Cowdry 1925) Moshkovski 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Ehrlichiaceae Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.

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