Name: "Candidatus Azobacteroides pseudotrichonymphae" Hongoh et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: pseu.do.tri.cho.nym’phae. N.L. gen. fem. n. pseudotrichonymphae, of the flagellate protist genus Pseudotrichonympha

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CfPt1-2

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

Original publication: Hongoh Y, Sharma VK, Prakash T, Noda S, Toh H, Taylor TD, Kudo T, Sakaki Y, Toyoda A, Hattori M, et al. Genome of an endosymbiont coupling N2 fixation to cellulolysis within protist cells in termite gut. Science 2008; 322:1108-1109.

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)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Candidatus Azobacteroides pseudotrichonymphae" Chuvochina et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, not validly published

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Azobacteroides" Hongoh et al. 2008

Assigned by: Hongoh Y, Sharma VK, Prakash T, Noda S, Toh H, Taylor TD, Kudo T, Sakaki Y, Toyoda A, Hattori M, et al. Genome of an endosymbiont coupling N2 fixation to cellulolysis within protist cells in termite gut. Science 2008; 322:1108-1109.

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Record number: 19684