Name: "Candidatus Similichlamydia" Stride et al. 2013

Category: Genus

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Si.mi.li.chla.my’di.a. L. masc./fem. adj. similis, resembling; N.L. fem. n. Chlamydia, a bacterial genus name; N.L. fem. n. Similichlamydia, resembling Chlamydia

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Similichlamydi-), si-mi-li-k^hla-MY-di-a

Type species: "Candidatus Similichlamydia latridicola" Stride et al. 2013

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Stride MC, Polkinghorne A, Miller TL, Nowak BF. Molecular characterization of "Candidatus Similichlamydia latridicola" gen. nov., sp. nov. (Chlamydiales: "Candidatus Parilichlamydiaceae"), a novel Chlamydia-like epitheliocystis agent in the striped trumpeter, Latris lineata (Forster). Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:4914-4920. 🇦🇺

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:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Simichlamydia".
  • 🧔 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 Chlamydiae. Minutes of the closed meeting, 31 March 2015, New Orleans, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:512-513. 🇨🇭

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 Similichlamydia epinepheli" corrig. Taylor-Brown et al. 2017	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Similichlamydia epinephelii" Taylor-Brown et al. 2017	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Similichlamydia labri" Steigen et al. 2015	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Similichlamydia laticola" Stride et al. 2013	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Similichlamydia latridicola" Stride et al. 2013	not validly published	pro-correct name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Parilichlamydiaceae" Stride et al. 2013

Assigned by: Stride MC, Polkinghorne A, Miller TL, Nowak BF. Molecular characterization of "Candidatus Similichlamydia latridicola" gen. nov., sp. nov. (Chlamydiales: "Candidatus Parilichlamydiaceae"), a novel Chlamydia-like epitheliocystis agent in the striped trumpeter, Latris lineata (Forster). Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:4914-4920. 🇦🇺

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