Name: "Candidatus Odyssella" Birtles et al. 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Od.ys.sel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Odyssella, pertaining to Odysseus

Gender: feminine (stem: Odyssell-)

Type species: "Candidatus Odyssella thessalonicensis" Birtles et al. 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Birtles RJ, Rowbotham TJ, Michel R, Pitcher DG, Lascola B, Alexiou-Daniel S, Raoult D. 'Candidatus Odyssella thessalonicensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligate intracellular parasite of Acanthamoeba species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:63-72.

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:
  • 🧕 Birtles et al. (2000) assigned this genus to the class "Alphaproteobacteria". Publication: Birtles RJ, Rowbotham TJ, Michel R, Pitcher DG, Lascola B, Alexiou-Daniel S, Raoult D. 'Candidatus Odyssella thessalonicensis' gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligate intracellular parasite of Acanthamoeba species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:63-72.
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Holosporaceae Görtz and Schmidt 2006. Publication: Görtz HD, Schmidt HJ. Family III. Holosporaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 146-149.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Odysella".

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 Odyssella thessalonicensis" Birtles et al. 2000	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Paracaedibacteraceae" Hess et al. 2016

Assigned by: Hess S, Suthaus A, Melkonian M. "Candidatus Finniella" (Rickettsiales, Alphaproteobacteria), Novel Endosymbionts of Viridiraptorid Amoeboflagellates (Cercozoa, Rhizaria). Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:659-670.

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Record number: 521