Genus "Candidatus Hodgkinia"
Name: "Candidatus Hodgkinia" McCutcheon et al. 2009
Etymology: Hodg.ki’ni.a. N.L. fem. n. Hodgkinia, named after the biochemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Gender: feminine (stem: Hodgkini-)
Type species: "Candidatus Hodgkinia cicadicola" McCutcheon et al. 2009
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Original publication:
McCutcheon JP, McDonald BR, Moran NA. Origin of an alternative genetic code in the extremely small and GC-rich genome of a bacterial symbiont. PLoS Genet 2009; 5:e1000565. 
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)
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Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Hodkinia".
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status "Candidatus Hodgkinia cicadicola" McCutcheon et al. 2009 not validly published preferred name (not correct name)
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Parent taxon: [Alphaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]
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Record number: 22250
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