Name: "Candidatus Neoehrlichia" Kawahara et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Ne.o.ehr.li’chi.a. Gr. masc. adj. neos, new; N.L. fem. n. Ehrlichia, a bacterial genus; N.L. fem. n. Neoehrlichia, a new Ehrlichia

Gender: feminine (stem: Neoehrlichi-)

Type species: "Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis" Kawahara et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Kawahara M, Rikihisa Y, Isogai E, Takahashi M, Misumi H, Suto C, Shibata S, Zhang C, Tsuji M. Ultrastructure and phylogenetic analysis of 'Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis' in the family Anaplasmataceae, isolated from wild rats and found in Ixodes ovatus ticks. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1837-1843.

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)

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Yabsley et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the family Anaplasmataceae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Yabsley MJ, Murphy SM, Luttrell MP, Wilcox BR, Howerth EW, Munderloh UG. Characterization of 'Candidatus Neoehrlichia lotoris' (family Anaplasmataceae) from raccoons (Procyon lotor). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2794-2798.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Neoerhlichia".

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: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Neoehrlichia arcana" Gofton et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Neoehrlichia australis" Gofton et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Neoehrlichia chilensis" Müller et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Neoehrlichia lotoris" Yabsley et al. 2008	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis" Kawahara et al. 2004	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Neoehrlichia procyonis" corrig. Yabsley et al. 2008	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Neoehrlichia tanzania" Schwameis et al. 2016	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Neoehrlichia tanzaniensis" corrig. Schwameis et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Ehrlichiaceae Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

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Record number: 21797