Name: "Candidatus Dactylopiibacterium" Ramírez-Puebla et al. 2010

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Dac.ty.lo.pi.i.bac.te’ri.um. N.L. masc. n. Dactylopius, a genus of scale insects; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Dactylopiibacterium, a rod from Dactylopius scale insects

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Dactylopiibacteri-), dak-ty-lo-pi-i-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: "Candidatus Dactylopiibacterium carminicum" Ramírez-Puebla et al. 2010

16S rRNA gene: Analysetree FASTA download

Effective publication: Ramirez-Puebla ST, Rosenblueth M, Chavez-Moreno CK, de Lyra MC, Tecante A, Martinez-Romero E. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Dactylopius (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae) and identification of the symbiotic bacteria. Environ Entomol 2010; 39:1178-1183. 🇲🇽

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: [Betaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 22242

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