Name: "Candidatus Riegeria" Gruber-Vodicka et al. 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Rie.ge’ri.a. N.L. fem. n. Riegeria, refers to the late zoologist Reinhard Rieger, who described the host genus, together with W. Sterrer

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Riegeri-), rie-GE-ri-a

Type species: "Candidatus Riegeria paracatenulae" corrig. Gruber-Vodicka et al. 2011

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gruber-Vodicka HR, Dirks U, Leisch N, Baranyi C, Stoecker K, Bulgheresi S, Heindl NR, Horn M, Lott C, Loy A, et al. Paracatenula, an ancient symbiosis between thiotrophic Alphaproteobacteria and catenulid flatworms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:12078-12083.

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:
  • 🧍 See also Dirks et al. (2012). Publication: Dirks U, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Leisch N, Bulgheresi S, Egger B, Ladurner P, Ott JA. Bacterial symbiosis maintenance in the asexually reproducing and regenerating flatworm Paracatenula galateia. PLoS One 2012; 7:e34709.

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: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Riegeria galateiae" Gruber-Vodicka et al. 2011	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Riegeria paracatenulae" corrig. Gruber-Vodicka et al. 2011	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Riegeria santandreae" Jäckle et al. 2019	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: [Rhodospirillales, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 521775