Name: Symbiotes Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sym.bi.o’tes. N.L. masc. n. Symbiotes, one who lives with a companion, a partner; from Gr. masc. n. symbiôtês

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Symbiot-), sym-bi-O-tes

Type species: Symbiotes lectularius corrig. (Arkwright et al. 1921) Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Philip CB. Comments on the classification of the order Rickettsiales. Can J Microbiol 1956; 2:261-270.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the tribe Wolbachieae Philip 1955 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: 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.
  • 🧕 Philip (1962) assigned this genus to the tribe Wolbachieae Philip 1955 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Philip CB. Appendix G. Summary of tickborne rickettsioses. Report 2nd Meeting FAOIE Expert Panel on Tick-borne Diseases of Livestock, Cairo. United Nations, Rome, 1962.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Arkwright JA, Atkin EE, Bacot A. An hereditary rickettsia-like parasite of the bedbug (Cimex lectularius). Parasitology 1921; 13:27-36.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Syinbiotes"; "Symbioles".
  • 🧍 Symbiotes Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980) is a later homonym of a genus name with standing in the zoological (animal) nomenclature: Symbiotes Redtenbacher, 1847. Principle 2 of the 2008 Code is not retroactive, so the name does not contravene the Code because of this homonymy. — Crook M. Personal communication, 2021-08-19.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "SMBI" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Symbiotes lectularia (Arkwright et al. 1921) Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Symbiotes lectularius corrig. (Arkwright et al. 1921) Philip 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: [Rickettsiales, not assigned to family]

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Record number: 517358