Name: "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia" Kostanjšek et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Rhab.do.chla.my’di.a. Gr. fem. n. rhabdos, stick, rod; N.L. fem. n. Chlamydia, taxonomic name of a bacterial genus; N.L. fem. n. Rhabdochlamydia, rod-, shaped chlamydiae, referring to the rod-like shape of elementary bodies

Gender: feminine (stem: Rhabdochlamydi-)

Type species: "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis" Kostanjšek et al. 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Kostanjsek R, Strus J, Drobne D, Avgustin G. 'Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis', an intracellular bacterium from the hepatopancreas of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:543-549.

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)

• Emendations:
  • Krieg et al. 2010 Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB. Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology. Springer New York, New York, NY, 2010.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydiaceae" Horn 2010. Publication: Paster BJ. Phylum XV. Spirochaetes Garrity and Holt 2001. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 471.
  • 🧕 Kostanjsek et al. (2004) assigned this genus to the order Chlamydiales Storz and Page 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Kostanjsek R, Strus J, Drobne D, Avgustin G. 'Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis', an intracellular bacterium from the hepatopancreas of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:543-549.
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🧍 See also Corsaro et al. (2007). Publication: Corsaro D, Thomas V, Goy G, Venditti D, Radek R, Greub G. 'Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia crassificans', an intracellular bacterial pathogen of the cockroach Blatta orientalis (Insecta: Blattodea). Syst Appl Microbiol 2007; 30:221-228.

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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia crassificans" Thomas et al. 2006	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia crassificans" Corsaro et al. 2007	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia helvetica" Pillonel et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydia porcellionis" Kostanjšek et al. 2004	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Rhabdochlamydiaceae" Horn 2010

Assigned by: Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Euzéby J, Whitman WB. Phylum XIV. Bacteroidetes phyl. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 25.

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