Name: "Ricolesia" Rake 1957

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ri.co.le’si.a. N.L. pref. Ri, an arbitrarily formed prefix taken from Rickettsia; N.L. n. Colesia, named for Prof. J. D. W. A. Coles, the first to study these organisms; N.L. fem. n. Ricolesia, an arbitrarily formed generic name

Gender: feminine (stem: Ricolesi-)

Type species: "Ricolesia pullorum" Rake 1957

Original publication: Waksman SA. Family Actinomycetaceae Buchanan and family Steptomycetaceae Waksman and Henrici. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 744-825.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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: 5

Parent taxon: Chlamydiaceae Rake 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.

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Record number: 36779
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