Etymology:Tam.mel’la.N.L. fem. dim. n.Tammella, name honoring Sidney L. Tamm, a contemporary American cytologist, for his discovery of the symbiosis in which this bacterium confers motility
Effective publication:
Hongoh Y, Sato T, Dolan MF, Noda S, Ui S, Kudo T, Ohkuma M. The motility symbiont of the termite gut flagellate Caduceia versatilis is a member of the "Synergistes" group. Appl Environ Microbiol 2007; 73:6270-6276. 🇯🇵
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
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: 1