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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Candidatus Hemobacterium"

Name: "Candidatus Hemobacterium" Zhang and Rikihisa 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: He.mo.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. neut. n. haîma, blood; Gr. neut. dim. n. baktêrion, a small rod; N.L. neut. n. Hemobacterium, a blood bacterium

Gender, pronunciation: neuter, he-mo-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: "Candidatus Hemobacterium ranarum" Zhang and Rikihisa 2004

Effective publication: Zhang C, Rikihisa Y. Proposal to transfer 'Aegyptianella ranarum', an intracellular bacterium of frog red blood cells, to the family Flavobacteriaceae as 'Candidatus Hemobacterium ranarum' comb. nov. Environ Microbiol 2004; 6:568-573. 🇺🇸

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: inaccurate spelling

Nomenclatural pro-status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Pro-correct name: "Candidatus Haematobacterium" corrig. Zhang and Rikihisa 2004

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: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Zhang C, Rikihisa Y. Proposal to transfer 'Aegyptianella ranarum', an intracellular bacterium of frog red blood cells, to the family Flavobacteriaceae as 'Candidatus Hemobacterium ranarum' comb. nov. Environ Microbiol 2004; 6:568-573. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 9178
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