Name: "Candidatus Kinetoplastidibacterium" corrig. Du et al. 1994

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ki.ne.to.plas.ti.di.bac.te’ri.um. N.L. neut. pl. n. Kinetoplastida, a class of protists; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Kinetoplastidibacterium, a rod from Kinetoplastida

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Kinetoplastidibacteri-), ki-ne-to-plas-ti-di-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: "Candidatus Kinetoplastidibacterium blastocrithidiae" corrig. Du et al. 1994

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Du Y, Maslov DA, Chang KP. Monophyletic origin of beta-division proteobacterial endosymbionts and their coevolution with insect trypanosomatid protozoa Blastocrithidia culicis and Crithidia spp. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:8437-8441.

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

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: 6

Parent taxon: [Betaproteobacteria, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 21899
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