Name: "Candidatus Protochlamydia" Collingro et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Pro.to.chla.my’di.a. Gr. masc. adj. prôtos, first, foremost; N.L. fem. n. Chlamydia, taxonomic name of a bacterial genus; N.L. fem. n. Protochlamydia, referring to the similarity of these bacteria to the chlamydial ancestor

Gender: feminine (stem: Protochlamydi-)

Type species: "Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila" Collingro et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Collingro A, Toenshoff ER, Taylor MW, Fritsche TR, Wagner M, Horn M. 'Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila', an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1863-1866.

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:
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Borel N, Bavoil P, Greub G, Horn M. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Chlamydiae. Minutes of the closed meeting, 9 April 2017, Charlotte, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3369-3370.
  • 🧔 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 inaugural closed meeting, 21 March 2009, Little Rock, AR, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2691-2693.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1.

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: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila" Collingro et al. 2005	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Protochlamydia massiliensis" Benamar et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Protochlamydia naegleriiphila" corrig. Casson et al. 2008	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Protochlamydia naegleriophila" Casson et al. 2008	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Protochlamydia phocaeensis" Bou Khalil et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Parachlamydiaceae Everett et al. 1999

Assigned by: Collingro A, Toenshoff ER, Taylor MW, Fritsche TR, Wagner M, Horn M. 'Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila', an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1863-1866.

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