Name: "Tropheryma" La Scola et al. 2001

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Tro.phe.ry’ma. Gr. fem. n. trophê, nourishment; Gr. neut. n. eryma, barrier; N.L. neut. n. Tropheryma, barrier to nourishment, so named because it causes malabsorption

Gender: neuter (stem: Tropherymat-)

Type species: "Tropheryma whipplei" La Scola et al. 2001

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: La Scola B, Fenollar F, Fournier PE, Altwegg M, Mallet MN, Raoult D. Description of Tropheryma whipplei gen. nov., sp. nov., the Whipple's disease bacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1471-1479.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1621-1623.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Tropheryma" Relman et al. 1992	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Troperyma"; "Tropherima"; "Tropherymaa"; "Trophyerma"; "Trophyrema".
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🧍 Considered not validly published. — Tropheryma La Scola et al. 2001 is not validly published because the type species is not validly published. — According to Rule 65 (2), the genus name Tropheryma must be in the neuter gender, not in the feminine gender as cited in the paper by La Scola et al. 2001. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585.

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Tropheryma whipplei" La Scola et al. 2001	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: "Tropherymataceae" Nouioui et al. 2018

Assigned by: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

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