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

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: in.tra.cel.lu.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. fem. adj. intracellularis, intracellular

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: a-di-U-trix in-tra-kel-lu-LA-ris, feminine

Nomenclatural type: Adiu1

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16S rRNA gene: AB972401 Analyse FASTA

Effective 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

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-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. 🇩🇪
  • 🧍 This species was confirmed as the type species of its monotypic genus in Appendix 1 of Candidatus List No. 6.

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