Name: "Candidatus Odyssella" Birtles et al. 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

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

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Odyssell-), o-dys-SEL-la

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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Pro-valid 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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Odyssella acanthamoebae" (Horn et al. 1999) Castelli and Petroni 2025	not validly published	synonym
    "Candidatus Odyssella thessalonicensis" Birtles et al. 2000	not validly published	pro-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