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: feminine (stem: Fritsche-)

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

Original 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

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Preferred name: "Candidatus Fritschea" Thao et al. 2003

• Synonyms:

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

• Notes:
  • 🙄 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	synonym (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Fritschea eriococci" Everett et al. 2005	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)

Parent taxon: Simkaniaceae Everett et al. 1999

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 42996