Name: "Candidatus Adiutrix intracellularis" Ikeda-Ohtsubo et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: in.tra.cel.l.u.la’ris. L. adv. intra, within; L. fem. n. cellula, a small chamber or cell; N.L. masc./fem. adj. suff. -aris, suffix denoting pertaining to; N.L. masc./fem. adj. intracellularis, intracellular

Gender: feminine

Type strain: Adiu1

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

Original publication: Ikeda-Ohtsubo W, Strassert JF, Kohler T, Mikaelyan A, Gregor I, McHardy AC, Tringe SG, Hugenholtz P, Radek R, Brune A. 'Candidatus Adiutrix intracellularis', an endosymbiont of termite gut flagellates, is the first representative of a deep-branching clade of Deltaproteobacteria and a putative homoacetogen. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:2548-2564.

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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus "Candidatus Adiutrix" Ikeda-Ohtsubo et al. 2016. Publication: Ikeda-Ohtsubo W, Strassert JF, Kohler T, Mikaelyan A, Gregor I, McHardy AC, Tringe SG, Hugenholtz P, Radek R, Brune A. 'Candidatus Adiutrix intracellularis', an endosymbiont of termite gut flagellates, is the first representative of a deep-branching clade of Deltaproteobacteria and a putative homoacetogen. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:2548-2564.

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Adiutrix" Ikeda-Ohtsubo et al. 2016

Assigned by: Ikeda-Ohtsubo W, Strassert JF, Kohler T, Mikaelyan A, Gregor I, McHardy AC, Tringe SG, Hugenholtz P, Radek R, Brune A. 'Candidatus Adiutrix intracellularis', an endosymbiont of termite gut flagellates, is the first representative of a deep-branching clade of Deltaproteobacteria and a putative homoacetogen. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:2548-2564.

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Record number: 2669