Genus "Candidatus Karelsulcia"

Name: "Candidatus Karelsulcia" corrig. Moran et al. 2005

Category, proposed as: genus, Candidatus

Etymology: Ka.rel.sul’ci.a. N.L. fem. n. Karelsulcia, named after Vytváření Karel Šulc, a Moravian embryologist at University of Brno who, while studying cicadas in 1909, was one of the first biologists to recognize the bacteriome of an insect as an organ containing micro-organisms

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Karelsulci-), ka-rel-SUL-ki-a

Type species: "Candidatus Karelsulcia muelleri" corrig. Moran et al. 2005

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Moran NA, Tran P, Gerardo NM. Symbiosis and insect diversification: an ancient symbiont of sap-feeding insects from the bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005; 71:8802-8810. 🇺🇸

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 Sulcia" Moran et al. 2005	other spelling of name, inaccurate spelling

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Moran et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the phylum "Bacteroidetes". Publication: Moran NA, Tran P, Gerardo NM. Symbiosis and insect diversification: an ancient symbiont of sap-feeding insects from the bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005; 71:8802-8810. 🇺🇸
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus "Candidatus Sulcia" Moran et al. 2005. Publication: Moran NA, Tran P, Gerardo NM. Symbiosis and insect diversification: an ancient symbiont of sap-feeding insects from the bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005; 71:8802-8810. 🇺🇸

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Karelsulcia muelleri" corrig. Moran et al. 2005	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: [Bacteroidota, not assigned to family]

Assigned by: Freese HM, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Sarda Carbasse J, Afolayan AO, Goker M. TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity. Nucleic Acids Res 2026; 54:D884-D891. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 21934