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: feminine (stem: Similichlamydi-)

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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original 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

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not 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	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Similichlamydia epinephelii" Taylor-Brown et al. 2017	inaccurate spelling	misspelling (and no standing)
    "Candidatus Similichlamydia labri" Steigen et al. 2015	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Similichlamydia laticola" Stride et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    "Candidatus Similichlamydia latridicola" Stride et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name (not 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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