Name: [Metachlamydia]

Category: Genus

Proposed as: LPSN placeholder (potentially permanent)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Nomenclatural status: artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description

• Notes:
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of the Chlamydiae: minutes of the closed meeting, 21 June 2010, Hof bei Salzburg, Austria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2694.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Greub G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae. Minutes of the closed meeting, 4 July 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:514-515.

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 Metachlamydia lacustris" Corsaro et al. 2010	not validly published

Parent taxon: Parachlamydiaceae Everett et al. 1999

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