Name: "Candidatus Fritschea" Everett et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Frit’sche.a. N.L. fem. n. Fritschea, after Thomas R. Fritsche, American physician and parasitologist, whose studies initiated a major change in our perception of the natural history and diversity of the Chlamydiae

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Fritsche-), FRIT-s͡he-a

Type species: "Candidatus Fritschea bemisiae" Everett et al. 2005

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Pro-valid publication: Everett KD, Thao M, Horn M, Dyszynski GE, Baumann P. Novel chlamydiae in whiteflies and scale insects: endosymbionts 'Candidatus Fritschea bemisiae' strain Falk and 'Candidatus Fritschea eriococci' strain Elm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1581-1587. 🇺🇸

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Fritschea" Thao et al. 2003	homotypic synonym, not pro-validly published

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Fritschea" Thao et al. 2003. Publication: Thao ML, Baumann L, Hess JM, Falk BW, Ng JC, Gullan PJ, Baumann P. Phylogenetic evidence for two new insect-associated Chlamydia of the family Simkaniaceae. Curr Microbiol 2003; 47:46-50. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Fritchea"; "Fritscha".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of the Chlamydiae: minutes of the inaugural closed meeting, 21 March 2009, Little Rock, AR, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2691-2693. 🇨🇭

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 Fritschea bemisiae" Everett et al. 2005	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Fritschea eriococci" Everett et al. 2005	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Simkaniaceae Everett et al. 1999

Assigned by: Everett KD, Thao M, Horn M, Dyszynski GE, Baumann P. Novel chlamydiae in whiteflies and scale insects: endosymbionts 'Candidatus Fritschea bemisiae' strain Falk and 'Candidatus Fritschea eriococci' strain Elm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1581-1587. 🇺🇸

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