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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus "Candidatus Profftia"

Name: "Candidatus Profftia" Toenshoff et al. 2012

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Proff’ti.a. N.L. fem. n. Profftia, named after Joachim Profft, the German scientist who provided the first comprehensive histological description of psyllid-microbe symbiotic associations

Gender: feminine (stem: Proffti-)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Toenshoff ER, Gruber D, Horn M. Co-evolution and symbiont replacement shaped the symbiosis between adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) and their bacterial symbionts. Environ Microbiol 2012; 14:1284-1295.

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: 7

Parent taxon: Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Toenshoff ER, Gruber D, Horn M. Co-evolution and symbiont replacement shaped the symbiosis between adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) and their bacterial symbionts. Environ Microbiol 2012; 14:1284-1295.

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Record number: 21814
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