Name: "Candidatus Goertzia" corrig. Boscaro et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Goer’tzi.a. N.L. fem. n. Goertzia, named after Hans-Dieter Görtz who played an important role in elucidating the relationship between prokaryotes and ciliates

Gender: feminine (stem: Goertzi-)

Type species: "Candidatus Goertzia infectiva" corrig. Boscaro et al. 2013

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Boscaro V, Fokin SI, Schrallhammer M, Schweikert M, Petroni G. Revised systematics of Holospora-like bacteria and characterization of "Candidatus Gortzia infectiva", a novel macronuclear symbiont of Paramecium jenningsi. Microb Ecol 2013; 65:255-267.

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: preferred name (not correct name)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Gortzia" Boscaro et al. 2013	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Emendations:
  • Serra et al. 2016 Serra V, Fokin SI, Castelli M, Basuri CK, Nitla V, Verni F, Sandeep BV, Kalavati C, Petroni G. "Candidatus Gortzia shahrazadis", a Novel Endosymbiont of Paramecium multimicronucleatum and a Revision of the Biogeographical Distribution of Holospora-Like Bacteria. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1704.

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Gortzia" Boscaro et al. 2013. Publication: Boscaro V, Fokin SI, Schrallhammer M, Schweikert M, Petroni G. Revised systematics of Holospora-like bacteria and characterization of "Candidatus Gortzia infectiva", a novel macronuclear symbiont of Paramecium jenningsi. Microb Ecol 2013; 65:255-267.

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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Goertzia infectiva" corrig. Boscaro et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Goertzia shahrazadae" corrig. Serra et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Goertzia yakutica" corrig. Beliavskaia et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Holosporaceae Görtz and Schmidt 2006

Assigned by: Boscaro V, Fokin SI, Schrallhammer M, Schweikert M, Petroni G. Revised systematics of Holospora-like bacteria and characterization of "Candidatus Gortzia infectiva", a novel macronuclear symbiont of Paramecium jenningsi. Microb Ecol 2013; 65:255-267.

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Record number: 21961